Thursday, June 30, 2016

[Health News] Joint Health And Meal

Joint Health And Meal

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Most people who are interested in health care said that nutritionally balanced meal is the best way of keeping health.

For example, the meal with not enough calcium and vitamin D leads to osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a disease that makes bones easy to break and weak, so it leads bones change quickly and makes pain worse. Therefore, raw fish, anchovy, and milk are needed and expose to the sun so that you are able to get calcium and vitamin D which make prevent from osteoporosis and arthritis.
Strong drinks make bones weak, put on weight so it’s good to be avoided. Also alcoholic drink makes liver and stomach severely damaged when you are taking arthritis medicine with. Instant foods have lots of salt, it causes articular joint swell and not be able to be active so too much salty foods should be avoided.

Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by problems of immunity. Immunity is strongly related with the meal. The lack of vitamin and mineral make immunity drop.
Undernourishment, and even overnutrition are also making immunity drop. The foods to immunize are sesame, mushrooms, herbs, seaweed, greenish yellow vegetables. These kinds of foods have antioxidative activity which helps to remove bad poison in your body. Fishes have a kinds of fatty acids called EPA. It makes brain active so eating fish to get EPA enough is good for children and middle-aged people who are getting less memories, and old people who are worried of dementia. However, it’s hard to change the eating habits. It’s another good way to eat seaweeds which have similar nourishment instead of fishes. Seaweeds are called wild ginseng in the sea because it has lots of nourishments. It prevents viral bacterial infection such as cold and tuberculosis, and it’s great for rheumatoid arthritis and high blood pressure.

Being overweight applies pressures on the articular joint so it may cause ostarthritis on the knees and the coxa, so it’s important to keep balanced weight. There is a report saying that when middle aged women lose their weight for 5kg or more, attack rate of ostarthritis could be reduced around 50%. The patients with severe pain on the articular joint could lose their appetite because of being tired and pain, so it’s important to overcome arthritis with regular and balanced meal for them.

Resource : Health column, The Catholic University of Korea Catholic Medical Center

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