Foods to Avoid if you have osteoarthritis

Alcohols and foods containing sugar, trans fats, saturated fats, grilled meat and salt can aggravate osteoarthritis by changing your body’s immune-response to disease.

Six foods to avoid If you have osteoarthritis

Trans Fats

Trans fat is proven to worsen osteoarthritis, and thus must be prevented at any cost. Unhealthy meals such as sweets, fast foods and fried foods, as well as baked cookies, and crackers are loaded with cholesterol. If for a reason or another, you find yourself forced to eat fried foods, consider cooking them in olive oil because it has oleocanthal that reduces swelling relevant to osteoarthritis.

Saturated Fats

Stay away from meals like lard, various meats and butter as they consist of soaked fats since unwanted body fat capture Vitamin D supplements which in any other case would have been utilized by the bone fragments.

Sugar

Glucose supplies the whole body with additional calories that contribute to body weight, thus adding more weight on the affected joints. avoid adding table sugar or creams known to be contain high amounts of glucose to your tea or coffee. Unhealthy meals especially sweets should be prevented. Although juices of fruits ((containing sugars)) must be avoided, dehydrated fresh fruits and nut products that contain relatively low amounts of glucose can be consumed.

Alcohol

Liquor is the resource of bare calorie consumption and must be restricted.

Salt

Sodium chloride or salt plays a major part in raising blood pressure that has negative effects on osteoarthritis. Unhealthy meals such as fast foods include big amounts of salts and thus need to be prevented.

Grilled Meat

Meals prepared at extremely excessive heat like barbecued meats generate swelling-causing substances like AGEs (advanced glycation end products). So, avoid eating broiled or grilled meals.

Verified by: Dr.Diab (June 27, 2017)

Citation: Dr.Diab. (June 27, 2017). Foods to Avoid if you have osteoarthritis. Medcoi Journal of Medicine, 3(2). urn:medcoi:article18243.