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| aged 35 to 68 experienced less pain and better capacity when they excluded meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, strong spices, preservatives, alcohol, tea, coffee, refined sugar, corn flour and table salt. |
| In addition to animal fats, certain vegetable oils are suspect. Too much omega-6 type fatty acids can interfere with the body's assimilation of beneficial omega-3 oils; the most common offenders are corn, sesame, sunflower and safflower oils. Flaxseed oil contains over three times as much omega-3 as omega-6, giving it high marks, but most other vegetable oils contain little or no omega-3 and large quantities of omega-6. Even though their omega-6 percentages are high, canola oil, soy oil, walnut oil and extra virgin olive oil contain at feast I part omega-3 for every 8 parts omega-6. In canola oil, the proportion is I in 2. Olive oil is considered a healthy choice because of its high percentage of mo-nounsaturated fat. For those reasons, canola, soy, walnut and olive oils are recommended for cooking. Another supplement of interest to arthritics is evening primrose oil, which contains prostaglandin-interrupting gammalinolenic acid (GLA). |
| In FoodYour Medical Miracle, medical journalist Jean Carper described the experience of New Jersey physician Joel Fuhrman, M.D., in his treatment of a 62-year-old woman. The patient had severe rheuma-toid arthritis and other medical problems and was taking nine prescription drugs. She had not been able to close her hand to make a fist for 10 years and had extensive pain in multiple joints. |
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