When we speak of rheumatism it should be clear that rheumatism is a very general term that covers many diseases. Rheumatic diseases are very diverse. There are 400 to 500 different rheumatic diseases and syndromes that can be divided into three main groups.
Inflammatory rheumatic diseases among which are found mainly rheumatoid arthritis or poly-arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis or Bechterew disease, rheumatic fever, systemic lupus erythematosus.
Degenerative diseases of the spine and joints such as osteoarthritis and spondylosis
Rheumatic diseases of the tendons and muscles and fibromyalgia.
Most of these are chronic diseases. Today, thanks to medical advances in many fields such as genetics, has been able to clarify the hereditary factor in many of them. Are autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis or polyarthritis, psoriatic arthritis.
In other infectious factor bacteriological origin of these diseases.
While medicine has made great progress over the last ten years in the study and development of drugs should consider the dietary factor as an accompaniment to contribute to improving the quality of life.
They do, and there is proven that a certain diet muchisimas cure any of the rheumatic diseases.
However adequate food intake of all necessary nutrients, vitamins and minerals is important.
It is a fact that certain foods increase or contribute to the inflammatory process. An important role is the arachidonic acid content in pork, red meats, egg yolk.
Citrus fruits like oranges, tomatoes, grapefruit also affect these.
On the other hand, the omega-3 fish have blue help combat inflammation.
In general there is much that people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis who have a diet which excludes food pro-inflammatory and includes lots of fruits, vegetables, fish and white meat little experience less pain and joint stiffness.
Also the deficiency of minerals and vitamins in people with autoimmune diseases, especially vitamin E is recommended as well as caroteinoides because of its great antioxidant power. (A portion of corn, carrots or peaches a day) helps prevent this deficiency.
Important to prevent stiffness and overweight is harmful in people with this disease is regular exercise.
