Diet and Natural Remedies
A healthy diet. A healthy diet may not directly affect your joint pain, but a diet rich in whole foods including fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts and beans, but low in processed foods and saturated fat, can be helpful for managing inflammatory arthritis. This in turn, can reduce pain. Some people say that eating certain foods causes pain to flare. If you suspect that a particular food is causing you pain, try eliminating solely that food from your diet. Eliminating multiple foods at once will make it difficult to determine if your suspected food is the culprit and eliminating too many foods or whole groups of foods could keep you from getting all of the nutrients you need.
Weight loss. If you are overweight, losing weight can be effective in easing arthritis pain, particularly for osteoarthritis of the knee. Even losing a small amount can help. But for those who are significantly overweight, losing a bit more is best. One study of 240 overweight or obese adults who lost 20% or more of their body weight had significantly lower levels of blood markers for inflammation and reported less pain and could walk farther in a six-minute test than those who lost less than 5% of their body weight.