A new study in women suggests that adopting a low-fat vegan diet and then getting rid of trigger foods may bring rheumatoid arthritis relief within months, possibly by helping patients to quickly shed weight.
. After week 7, the women added back the trigger foods one-by-one, keeping them in their diet if they didn’t seem to cause symptoms.After participants were on the low-fat vegan diet for 16 weeks, their average number ofAverage body weight fell by a whopping 14 pounds among those in the diet group, while those in the placebo group gained an average of almost 2 pounds.
It’s not clear if the lost weight is more responsible for the diet’s benefits than the actual foods, says Harvard Medical School rheumatologist Daniel Solomon, MD, who reviewed the study findings for WebMD. Another possibility is that certain parts of the diet – and not the full diet – were responsible, he says.
“I am sure that motivated patients could follow such a diet,” he says, “but first we should determine if the specific diet was the key issue or whether weight loss was more important.” Barnard, the study’s lead author, says patients tolerated the diet well. “It’s practical for day-to-day life” and cheaper than diets with meat and dairy, he says.“It’s a good idea for anyone to have a chance to try a diet change,” he says. “You’ll know within a matter of weeks whether it will work.”Neal D. Barnard, MD, internal medicine specialist; president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.: “A Randomized, Crossover Trial of a Nutritional Intervention for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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