What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer or diabetes or

heart disease or high blood pressure?

This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life.

Well the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet.

In other words, one centered around whole plant foods.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Brecker.

Today on the podcast, we look at the best way to control osteo and rheumatoid arthritis.

And we start with a look at what happens when topical olive oil is pitted against an ibuprofen

type drug.

50 million Americans suffer from arthritis.

In osteoarthritis of the knee is the most common form, making it a leading cause of disability.

All inflammatory pathways underlie the onset, progression of the disease, so various anti-inflammatory

foods have been put to the test.

Strawberries decrease the level, circling in the blood of an inflammatory mediator known

as tumor to crostis factor, but that doesn't necessarily translate into clinical improvement.

For example, drinking cherry juice can lower a sign of inflammation known as seureactive

protein, but it failed to help with the disease.

But wait, it says, provided symptom relief.

Yeah, it did, but no better than placebo, meaning drinking it was essentially no better than

doing nothing.

Cherrys may help with another kind of arthritis called gout, but they failed when it came

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