Arthritis Diet

Rheumatoid Arthritis Diet - At No Cost

Many Asian people don't consume dairy as part of their diet. And they rarely suffer from any form of arthritis.

The west has many strange dietary customs, many based on misinformation. Dairy is one of them.

Dairy is a wonderful food - for baby cows. It's rich in calcium and all the other essential nutrients for a growing baby cow. But only a baby cow can properly absorb and utilise it.

Once you are weaned, you can no longer digest milk properly, as your digestive enzymes alter to cope with more complicated foods.

A different species has very different growing requirements. Cows grow to full maturity in about a year, whereas it takes a human about 17 years. This means the nutrients in cows milk are in the wrong proportion for human needs.

Couple the inappropriate nature of dairy for human health and the lack of arthritis in the Asian countries where dairy is not consumed, and it seems a reasonable connection to make.

Other factors may also be present, but are they?

Many rheumatoid arthritis sufferers have simply taken dairy out of their diet and completely resolved all their symptoms. To the point where they have not only stopped all their medication, but also resumed a full and active life.

Would you like that?

Using this rheumatoid arthritis diet you might wonder where you would get your calcium from, without dairy.

The same place you have always got it, bearing in mind your body couldn't use the calcium in the dairy you were consuming.

And that's in green leafy vegetables (such as spinach, silver beet, broccoli, brussel sprouts), nuts, seeds and blue green algae.

You might be wondering how to manage without dairy in your diet. There are many good alternatives, but also some bad ones.

Avoid soy as a milk substitute as that has different problems. Oat or almond milk are great substitutes and some like rice milk.

Margarine is not a healthy alternative to butter. Try coconut oil or olive oil.

If you're a cheese or yoghurt fan, perhaps you can just abstain from them for a trial month. It is possible, that when you are completely free of symptoms, you might be able to indulge in the occasional piece of cheese without suffering.

This rheumatoid arthritis diet may just be the one to heal all your symptoms. But it may take a month before you start to see results, and possibly another month to be rid of all the symptoms, so don't expect overnight results.