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 Unlike most diets, an arthritis diet plan is not so much about what you eat, as it is about what you should avoid. Avoiding foods which cause or increase inflammation is basically all you need to do to reduce the effects of arthritis on your affected limbs. Although there are certain foods which have anti-arthritic effects, their effects tend to vary and are generally not as effective as practical prevention. So if you want to reduce arthritis in your body then what you need to do is to control your diet, and here are several foods that will help you do it. Sugar At the top of the list is sugar. Pastries, sodas, candy and even natural fruit juices can cause arthritis. This is mainly because sugar contains a large amount of inflammatory messengers known as cytokines, which triggers inflammation in almost every part of the body. Fortunately, sugar is relatively easy detect. If a particular ingredient has an "ose" at the end of it then it has sugar, and will likely cause probl

 If you read my last article entitled 5 Fast Facts about FIR, you likely know more about far infrared therapy than most of the population! Far Infrared Rays (FIR) are invisible light rays from the sun that make us feel warm on sunny days BUT do not burn the skin. This light energy is absorbed deep into the tissue: - activating water molecules in the blood - increasing blood flow - enhancing cell regeneration and soft tissue repair Our bodies naturally contain FIR energy and this explains why we feel better when outside on sunny days and maybe why so many seniors feel better when wintering in Florida! Hyperthermic therapies such as FIR have been used for generations but because the biological effects are hard to validate, peer reviewed medical articles on this topic are scarce. The quantitative data is mainly collected through pain questionnaires completed by test and control groups before, during and after the study. An interesting study published by the American Journal of Geriatri