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Rheumatoid Arthritis, Molecular Mimicry, and Diet as a Possible Therapy
by Ron Hoggan
http://www.gluten-free.org/hoggan/ra.txt (http://www.gluten-free.org/hoggan/ra.txt)
You Are What You Eat: New Theories About Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Elizabeth Tracey MS
WebMD Medical News
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/23/1728_56722 (http://my.webmd.com/content/article/23/1728_56722)
April 18, 2000 -- Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers take note or take it with a grain of salt but eating cereal grains such as wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn, or legumes, such as beans and peas, may produce changes in gut structure that promote the development of the disease in susceptible people. That's according to a paper published in the current issue of the British Journal of Nutrition.
"Our theory helps us begin to understand the connection between joint inflammation and gut inflammation that's been a universal clinical finding for years," lead author Loren Cordain, PhD, tells WebMD. He and his colleagues have developed a theory about "how diet can interact with gut tissue as well as components of the immune system to promote the development of [rheumatoid arthritis] in certain individuals," he says. Cordain is a professor in the department of health and exercise science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. ....
From Food and Western Disease by Staffan Lindeberg, page 213:Rheumatoid arthritis in American Indians and Alaska Natives: A review of the literature http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049017204001805 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049017204001805)
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"The hypothesis that meat contributes to rheumatoid arthritis [...] is not substantiated by intervention studies. [642. Hagen, K.B., Byfuglien, M.G., Falzon, L., Olsen, S.U. & Smedslund, G. (2009) Dietary interventions for rheumatoid arthritis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, CD006400. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2484438/pdf/jcca00067-0031.pdf (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2484438/pdf/jcca00067-0031.pdf)] In contrast, a relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and the intake of meat products has been observed in an epidemiological cohort study and an ecological study. Countries with high meat consumption also have a high prevalence of HLA genotypes with a tendency for rheumatoid arthritis. However, an observation that is inconsistent with meat being a cause of rheumatoid arthritis is that the disease has become considerably more common among modern Eskimos, despite a markedly lower meat intake than in the past." [1413. Peschken, CA & Esdaile, JM (1999) Rheumatic Diseases in North America's Indigenous Peoples. Semin Arthritis Rheum 28, 368-91. 1414.] [1588. Schaefer, O. (1971) When the Eskimo Comes to Town. Nutr Today 6, 8-16.]