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| as the white flour and white sugar that wrecked the teeth and health of Dr. Price's native tribes. |
| Nutritionists and researchers who specialize in diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism and other types of inflammation have found that a diet rich in variety and emphasizing fresh, whole, unprocessed ingredients, such as different types of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and cold-water fish, can be therapeutic. |
| According to Dr. Alfred Steinberg, an arthritis ex-pert at the National Institutes of Health, fish oil not only is a proven anti-inflammatory agent, it acts directly on the immune system, suppressing 40 to 55 percent of the release of cytokines, which are compounds that damage joints. For decades, physicians scoffed at the alleged benefits of cod liver oil and other fish oils, which users described as "lubricat-ing" arthritic joints. After medical journals reported multiple benefits from fish oils, marine supplements became widely prescribed, especially those rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Although marine oil supplements are still popular, possible nutritional imbalances from concentrated supplements have made whole fish a preferred source of omega-3 oils for many physicians. |
| Vegetarians have always claimed that meat consumption and arthritis go hand in hand. They're right. A 1987 Swedish experiment reported in the Scandinavian Journal of Rheuinatology showed that a strict vegetarian diet improved the condition of more than half of the rheumatoid arthritis patients who followed it for four months. Twelve of the twenty patients |
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