Living with Osteoarthritis: Food

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I thought it might be useful for me to share the life changes that I'm making as I learn to live with my osteoarthritis, as some of you out there might find these changes to be useful information. I'll freely admit that a lot of what I've learned over the last few days is daunting, and I will have to make some Lifestyle Changes (TM) that are probably going to require time and effort from me. Woo.

So, food is going to be my most important focus. Why? Because I am 70 pounds overweight, and every single thing I read about osteoarthritis, particularly that of the knees, tells you that you must get weight off. After the pain of this last week, I am totally there.

The trick is how to get the weight off. I haven't had too much success in recent years with that, so I thought that maybe doing some research into what was good and bad for arthritis sufferers might be in order.

Let's start with the no's.

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