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What Diet to Recommend to Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis?

  |  Issue: November 2013  |  

Although it may be difficult to pinpoint via clinical studies, further research into diet and RA should ideally try to determine which foods can affect or improve RA symptoms, says Dr. Zashin. RA patients may one day benefit from research tracking diet and arthritis in general, or diet and autoimmune disease.

Vanessa Caceres is a freelance medical writer in Bradenton, Florida.

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