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"equipping you for better health choices"

September 2000

Do you suffer from debilitating pain?  There are many disorders with widespread musculoskeletal pain, stiffness and fatigue.  Sounds depressing doesn't it? If you could improve your condition with simple dietary changes would you do it? Some would call these diet changes "elimination food." Not all of us are the same biochemical or digestively. But there are certain foods that generally work for most of us.  Take in to consideration your genetic profile, and your heritage.  Two important factors that have some governing powder of you.  But environment inside (what you are eating and digesting and ), and the environment outside, your lifestyle choices may in most cases rule!  This means you can improve your health, on an everyday level.  Ready?

Dietary Foods And Influences on Pain

What to Eat

Fish-Omega 3 containing such as:
anchovies, bluefish, halibut, herring, lake trout, salmon, tuna, sardines, and mackerel. See my site under joints. For more info about their
anti-inflammatory action.

Fruits-EXCEPT CITRUS, which may cause flare-up of pain, when eaten.  Fresh fruit (best in season), have tons for protection in their fiber and antioxidants that bring life to us on a cellular level.  Go for the colored fruits.  Purple fruits are rich sources of poly phenols, those found in red wine. Yellow and orange highest amounts of carotenoids.  Their are over 400 carotenoids!
Pineapple a particular great fruit to eat, fresh, it contains bromelian, known for super anti-inflammatory properties. Also, in supplements such as Twin Lab Joint Fuel, and Twin Lab Mega Bromelian.  Excellent for bruises, too.

Dark Leafy Green - A must eat everyday for all!  Use in this order: fresh, frozen and never canned! Their therapeutic value reaches in every cell in your body.  A powerhouse full of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes!

Oils - cold-pressed to retain optimal vitamins. Use extra virgin olive oil, canola, flaxseed, walnut and soy oil.  All an excellent source of Omega 3, the good fats.

Legumes- In cultures that eat a lot of bean-like foods, diseases such as arthritic conditions have a much lower rate.  See my site under women and soy.  All bean should be included in one's diet.  Try to use fresh, but
if you must turn to can. 

Whole Grains- not enriched grains.  Go for the dark color.  Oats are a super food and easy to come by. These whole grains all have elements that are vitally important to support life and improve your health.  Find a few you really like and include them on a regular basics.  Barley is another super food, which can be added to soups or eaten like rice. 
Green Tea- active substances called anthocyanidins, good stuff to strengthen the immune system and ward off degenerative disorders.

White flour and sugar-  I know it's almost impossible in our daily diet.  This also includes "refined products." These are the products that rob about 21 natural occurring (remember here's where the antioxidants
protection are in the natural state) vitamins, minerals and fiber.  And their replacements are about seven artificial "vitamins."  Never is the fiber replaced!  As much as 80% of the average American diet  as been
depleted with the living foods.  Living food has vital enzymes, that denatured foods do not.    Synthetic, processed,  foods will not support a healthy immune system, but will reap a host of degeneration of disorder

Caffeine-limit to one cup a day, hey it can be a big cup. But once a day.  Caffeine is a short term gain for athletes. But a long term washout for minerals.  Drink green tea for a little caffeine.

MSG-known as monosodium glutamate.  Always when ordering Chinese  foods tell them no MSG!  Can cause headaches, and fatigue.  It is too high in sodium, which us Americans need to cut back on!

The Nightshade Family-these include eggplant, (which is really a non-starchy fruit and a member of the potato  family), peppers (although an excellent source of vitamin C, if eaten raw), tomatoes (considered poisonous until a dear Mr. Corne in Newport, Rhode Island ate one and lived to tell about it).  Tomatoes if eaten should be limited and eaten in season only.    It contains citric fruit and is in the same classifications as oranges and grapefruit. These nightshade veggies are said to cause inflammation in 7 out of 10 people.  If these foods are native to your nationally, you may be able to digest them better.

Other foods-include in some people dairy, nuts, citrus foods, aspartame,
(aspartame not good for anyone in large amounts).  And basically a "dead diet." 

Make sure you eat live foods, as close to nature as possible. Limit animal proteins.  Be 70-80% vegetable kingdom and 20% animal kingdom!

Note: This information isn't intended as medical advice or in place of medical care.

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