Helpful tips that I keep in the front of my mind as I walk through life managing rheumatoid arthritis naturally.
Category: OKAY WITH RA
7 Posts
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Don’t Make This Harder Than It Is
But the GOOD NEWS is that once you learn the simple rules and begin putting them into practice, it gets easier and easier… because it becomes your new norm. In time, you don’t think about your old way of living or eating anymore. You don’t miss those old foods that kept you weak and made you a slave to pain and disease. You appreciate what you are able to do…
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“Go To” Morning Smoothie for Pain Free Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
When I first began changing my diet to improve Rheumatoid Arthritis, I remember being frozen with fear when it came to eating at all. Convinced that food was contributing to, or maybe even causing my illness, I knew I had to be careful about what I put in my mouth, but I didn’t trust myself with the responsibility of making food choices that wouldn’t hurt me. Today after years of…
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Easy, Healthy, Go To Lunch!
Today I ate one of my favorite go to meals: I love this meal because of the crunchy veggies, the delicious roasted red pepper hummus, and those sweet, juicy red grapes for dessert. Since embracing a whole food plant-based diet, hummus has become a huge part of my life. I eat it on the regular! It’s a great food for me because it is made from chickpeas which is a…
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I Don’t Know What Foods I Can Eat!?!
Doesn’t it seem like conflicting advice about what to eat is coming at us from every direction these days! “Don’t eat beans, those lectins are toxic!” “High fat, low carb for heart health!” Keto, Paleo, gluten free… who can keep up with it all! In light of all of the diet advice going around these days, I’d like to offer up a few questions we can ask ourselves to help…
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NSAIDS and Rheumatoid Arthritis
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: People with rheumatoid arthritis don’t have good options when it comes to conventional medical treatment. I mean seriously, the options are glum. WebMD Lists the main goals of RA treatments as: 1) To control inflammation 2) to relieve pain 3) to reduce disability. Now these are noble goals. I understand that inflammation in the joints causes pain (ask me how I…