What kind of diet should I have with ankylosing spondylitis?
I have heard many people tell me about different diets for my arthritis. I want to know one that will actually help me. Do you know?
You’re going to want to choose a diet high and prominent in vitamins and calcium. My best advice, eat healthy. The food pyramid can be slightly adjusted to fit just about all health concerns. Below, I will list the FDA’s guidelines to healthy diets.
This is a quick link to a food pyramid. I will list some additional guidelines below:
http://bentlyr.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/low-fat-food_pyramid_usdaj.jpg
* Note: FDA Food Pyramid was recently adjusted, but not to the point of being 100% different.
I highly recommend you take in more dairy products than recommended, but assure that these products are low in fat. Like a calve, we need some of the nutrients they need to promote strong and healthy bones. It’s not all about bones, though… it’s also about the connective tissues and muscles surrounding your bones. Vitamin A, Vitamin D, calcium… these are things that we need!
I also recommend an increase in lean beef and fish. By saying lean beef, I mean petite sirloin steaks. These steaks have protein, and protein is good for our muscles. It is also conservative meat portions… stuff that makes the doctor and your body smile. I cannot stress enough how good fish is for people… the amino acids, vitamins, and fatty acids with it are not only important for blood health, but healthy for bone marrow because of it being vascular. If you cannot eat fish or you just don’t like it, there are vitamins available to supplement fish. If you eat any meat, assure that it is fish!
Continue with your intake in the pyramid of fruits, vegetables, and grains. Eat many fruits and vegetables! Replace your snacks with fruits and vegetables! Your body (and, in many places, your wallet) will thank you. These give you natural sugars and calories to promote good digestion, which in return will affect how you feel.
When it comes to energy, look beyond coffee and sugar and into whole grain foods. Whole grain foods conduct into natural energy that your bones and your muscles will love.
When it comes to arthritis, it’s good to promote all around health. With these guidelines from the FDA transpired to my personal recommendations for orthopaedic health, I am confident that this diet will prove to be efficient.
Also, I would like for you to check into different exercises that you can do at home. I, as a personal sufferer of arthritis and spine pain, can say that these are some of the things that keep me sane.
http://www.spine-health.com/wellness/exercise
These exercises will promote strength and longevity.
I hope that this answer was beneficial for you. I have a heart for those who suffer from arthritis, especially the narrowing of your spine. If you have any questions, please e-mail me via justincurtis101@live.com. God bless you, I hope you feel better soon!
– Justin Curtis
You’re going to want to choose a diet high and prominent in vitamins and calcium. My best advice, eat healthy. The food pyramid can be slightly adjusted to fit just about all health concerns. Below, I will list the FDA’s guidelines to healthy diets.
This is a quick link to a food pyramid. I will list some additional guidelines below:
http://bentlyr.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/low-fat-food_pyramid_usdaj.jpg
* Note: FDA Food Pyramid was recently adjusted, but not to the point of being 100% different.
I highly recommend you take in more dairy products than recommended, but assure that these products are low in fat. Like a calve, we need some of the nutrients they need to promote strong and healthy bones. It’s not all about bones, though… it’s also about the connective tissues and muscles surrounding your bones. Vitamin A, Vitamin D, calcium… these are things that we need!
I also recommend an increase in lean beef and fish. By saying lean beef, I mean petite sirloin steaks. These steaks have protein, and protein is good for our muscles. It is also conservative meat portions… stuff that makes the doctor and your body smile. I cannot stress enough how good fish is for people… the amino acids, vitamins, and fatty acids with it are not only important for blood health, but healthy for bone marrow because of it being vascular. If you cannot eat fish or you just don’t like it, there are vitamins available to supplement fish. If you eat any meat, assure that it is fish!
Continue with your intake in the pyramid of fruits, vegetables, and grains. Eat many fruits and vegetables! Replace your snacks with fruits and vegetables! Your body (and, in many places, your wallet) will thank you. These give you natural sugars and calories to promote good digestion, which in return will affect how you feel.
When it comes to energy, look beyond coffee and sugar and into whole grain foods. Whole grain foods conduct into natural energy that your bones and your muscles will love.
When it comes to arthritis, it’s good to promote all around health. With these guidelines from the FDA transpired to my personal recommendations for orthopaedic health, I am confident that this diet will prove to be efficient.
Also, I would like for you to check into different exercises that you can do at home. I, as a personal sufferer of arthritis and spine pain, can say that these are some of the things that keep me sane.
http://www.spine-health.com/wellness/exercise
These exercises will promote strength and longevity.
I hope that this answer was beneficial for you. I have a heart for those who suffer from arthritis, especially the narrowing of your spine. If you have any questions, please e-mail me via justincurtis101@live.com. God bless you, I hope you feel better soon!
– Justin Curtis
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Medical Expert, Personal Experience
You can drive yourself crazy trying to figure that out for it seems everybody has an opinion which is good and not but yet not one place has a list to give you what to eat and not to eat, they are all guidelines. The biggest reason for that is you can be in pain today and either eat something and go into pain and people point at that as your cause, or you don’t eat something and they say the same thing. The biggest obstacle they have in proving those things is they can’t. You eat something today and it takes a day before it’s really affecting you so if you go into pain after you eat it it didn’t have time to do anything yet. If the pain shows up 12 hours later they can’t prove the pain is caused by it either, they are still guessing. So while one is trying to do all the right things the truth is none of them might be doing you any good. Just eating healthy, for the most part, is the best you can do, along with remaining active.
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