Many of our readers are
arthritic sufferers or have loved ones who are suffering. Some are newly
diagnosed and are beginning the search for information and guidance.
Others have had arthritis for some time and are disappointed with
treatments offered them. Many have read both the orthodox literature and
popular books or magazine articles with claims of arthritis cures.
Try Diet Revision
We think that inflammatory arthritis is often caused by immune responses to food
materials and encourage everyone with arthritis to give diet revision a try. There is
clash between orthodox opinion and the ideas that flourish in the community at large. Many
books and magazine articles over many years have championed nutritional approaches to
solving arthritis. The main problem with common diet advice is that book and magazine
articles often get the story mixed up and good ideas are entangled with bad ideas. Food
ideas are also mixed up with commercial hyperbole and diet advice often is contradictory
and confusing.
At the same time, advice about diet from the major institutions can be misleading
and often discourages any self-directed effort to seek a solution through diet revision.
The truth of arthritis probably lies someone in the middle. The institutional advice
ignores a body of scientific evidence that should be of great interest to the arthritis
patient and his or her MD. We urge the reader to spend the time required to understand
good scientific hypotheses which lead to practical, common sense approaches to diet
management in arthritis. In the pages found at this web site, the key concepts are
discussed.
Arthritis Treatment is
Disappointing
A 1997 survey of 1,000 Canadian Arthritis sufferers showed that 60% developed
the disease after age 40; 62% of those dissatisfied with the care they received cited
"not getting better" as their chief complaint. Arthritis was one of the most
reasons for visiting the family doctor in Canada and is the third most common reason for
prescription drug use. The annual cost of Arthritis health care in Canada is $14.3
billion.
