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Non Drug Pain Management Ideas: Anti-Inflammatory Foods

Recently, I posted a piece entitled: Is pain management possible through diet?
The post features a book about  following eating foods that have natural anti-inflammatory properties.  By reducing inflammation one is able to accompanying pain that is a part of many disease states, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
So today I am going to share a short list  of some of these natural pain relievers. In the coming days, I will go through the list and feature them individually.  I hope these foods are on your favorites list, and that by learning how to incorporate them into your diet, you, too will be able to reduce pain and suffering in your life that is due to inflammation.
And so, without further ado, here is the list!

  1. Fruits and vegetables
  2.  Omega-3 foods
  3. Lean proteins
  4. Whole grains
  5. Herbs and Spices          
The renowned Dr, Andrew Weil , a pioneer in the field of food and integrative medicine, has created a food pyramid based on the anti-inflammatory properties of foods.
If you click on the link, you can see Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid and get some idea of how this diet works.

Addendum: Some comments that appeared after this was published said that this post was interesting but too short.  Fear not!  Every post this coming week--and some other future posts are scheduled with much more detail about the effect of diet on inflammation.  This post was merely the introduction!  While you are awaiting the upcoming posts, there is a link to Dr. Weil's  food pyramid above.  Also,there is a link to an earlier post about diet above,and here are links to some of my past posts on nutritional effects on chronic pain:

 1) The Role of Vitamin C in pain management
 2) Chronic pain linked to Vitamin D deficiency   

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