Dietary Guidelines:

• Arthritis now days is very common disease found among Indians especially woman.
• Exclude Strong tea, coffee, aerated drinks completely from the diet.
• Include skim milk & its products & exclude full cream milk & its products like ghee, butter, khoya, cheese etc.
• Exclude Rajmah,dry beans, lentils completely .
• Exclude some vegetables like spinach, peas, mushrooms, tomatoes, cauliflower, lemon etc.
• Avoid too much fried foods, use refined oil for cooking like olive oil, sunflower oil, rice bran oil etc.
• Take complex carbs such as fruits, vegetables, whole wheat bread biscuits, dalia, flour, bran etc & minimize intake of simple carbs like maida, suji, chirwa, rice etc.
• If the person is overweight then completely exclude sugar & its products from diet like honey, jaggery, sugar, candies, supari, saunf etc.
• Avoid fruits like Mango, Banana, Litchi, Chiku, Grapes & Vegetables like Potato, sweet-potato, yam, colocasia, carrot, beetroot, turnip, cholia etc.(for overweight person).
• Include calcium rich products like soybeans, milk, low fat cheese, paneer, pulses, fish etc.
• Take Soy Protein Isolate in diet.
• Decrease meal size & take frequent meals e.g. 4-5 meals.

• Drink 10-12 glasses of water/day.