Osteoarthritis Diet
Tired of Hearing About Overweight and Osteoarthritis?
Overweight is a risk factor for osteoarthritis, as well as an additional burden to your joints. Even knowing that, do you ever get tired of hearing about weight and weight management?
Your Action Plan to Better Manage Osteoarthritis
Maintaining a healthy weight and participating in regular physical activity will help you manage osteoarthritis.
Weight Management for Osteoarthritis
Weight management can help you prevent or control osteoarthritis. While there is no specific diet for osteoarthritis, there are important points you should know to help you with weight management.
Ideal Weight and Osteoarthritis - Ideal Weight
It's important to maintain your ideal weight, especially when you have a chronic condition like osteoarthritis. Have you strayed from your ideal weight?
Successfully Losing Weight With Osteoarthritis
Maintaining your ideal weight is essential to managing osteoarthritis. Have you been successful at losing weight with osteoarthritis?See submissions
Eat Right and Eat Less
Osteoarthritis patients know that overweight is bad for joints. It all boils down to this bit of sound advice -- eat right and eat less.
Should People With Arthritis Avoid Nightshade Foods?
Nightshade vegetables are among the foods that some people feel can trigger arthritis flares. Others feel their arthritis symptoms improve when nightshade vegetables are avoided.
Does Food Impact Severity of Arthritis?
Do certain foods affect the severity of symptoms associated with arthritis?
Fruits and Vegetables May Cut Arthritis Risk and Reduce Inflammation
Antioxidant potential of some dietary carotenoids, including beta-cryptoxanthin and zeaxanthin, may reduce risk of arthritis.
Is a Daily Multivitamin Important for Arthritis Patients?
Multivitamins are essential for everyone, especially people with chronic illnesses like arthritis. Multivitamins contain essential nutrients.
Vitamin C and Arthritis: Opposite Findings for OA and RA
Two studies have opposite findings regarding the relationship between vitamin C for osteoarthrtitis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Extra Pounds Increase Arthritis Pain
Being overweight, even just moderately, burdens the joints and increases pain and inflammation.
Arthritis & Diet Quiz
Does diet have any impact on arthritis? Do specific foods or supplements reduce inflammation?
Arthritis & Weight Loss Quiz
A sedentary lifestyle, medication side effects, and not always eating as healthy as possible are all contributors to weight gain. How much do you know about maintaining ideal weight and weight loss?
