DIET CHART FOR RHUMATIOD ARTHRITIS PATIENT

DO’S AND DONT’S WHILE FOLLOWING DIET PLAN FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

Do’s:

• Include high calcium rich foods (beans, milk, cheese, tofu, fish, and dry fruits)
• Eat fresh, vegetables and fruits every day.
• Prefer homemade foods over outside foods.
• Do check for iodine content on food labels.
• Include omega-3 rich foods such as fish, walnuts, almonds, flax seeds, olive oil, and canola oil.

Don’ts:

• Avoid consumption of caffeinated products.
• Limit the intake of phosphorus containing foods such as meat, soft drinks. 
• Never consume Iron rich foods along with calcium rich foods because they cause malabsorption.
• Avoid high levels of oxalic acid food such as spinach, collard greens, sweet potatoes, rhubarb and beans prevent calcium absorption. 
• Do not consume calcium rich foods along with these foods.
  

DO’S AND DONT’S WHILE FOLLOWING DIET PLAN FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

• Cereals & cereal products – Ragi, bajra, whole wheat flour. 
• Pulses & Legumes – Lentils, peas, chickpeas, toor daal, kidney beans, soy beans.
• Fruits & Vegetables – Custard apples, chikus, apple, white jamun, grapes, lemons, oranges, raw mangoes, carrots, beetroots, bottle gourd, bitter gourds, spinach, Indian spinach, colocasia, drumsticks, yam, taro, tapioca, coriander leaves, celery, spring onions, garlic, ginger.
• Milk & milk products –  Milk liquid, curd, cottage cheese, ghee, chhach, lassi, custard.
• Meat, Fish and Poultry – Sweet and salt water fishes, eggs, Chicken.
• Nuts & Oils – Almonds, raisins, pista, walnuts, vegetable oil, mustard oil.
• Fortified breakfast cereals, juices, milk products, yogurt etc.