You have felt great for months or even years when you gave up eating meat. You developed some low back pain awhile back and it’s not going away or it keeps coming back. You have tried physiotherapy, massage therapy, chiropractic care, and acupuncture with no luck. Even your yoga practice is longer helping it. In fact, you are no longer able to do intense exercise because you get sore and it takes you longer to recover. Could it be that your lower back pain is due to something more than a … [Read more...]
Does Red Meat Cause Joint Pain and Inflammation?
Chronic inflammation or swelling can cause persistent or recurrent joint pain. Red meat has been singled out by the media and mainstream dietary sources (national food guides and arthritis societies) as a food to limit or avoid. This is the second article in a series on red meat where we will focus on whether red meat really causes joint and inflammation or not. Direct studies on red meat and inflammation There are two controlled trial studies showing eating red meat does not increase … [Read more...]