| Who's Fault is It? | | | | malady, the pain becomes even more pronounced. |
| So, what led to my acquiring of arthritis? I was the | | | | Though I do not know where all arthritis comes |
| victim of divorced parents. My mom remarried twice | | | | from; I do know that my arthritis left my body only |
| and my dad had visitation rights. In my particular | | | | after an M.D. advised me that I should stop eating |
| case, neither parent was insistent upon my | | | | white sugar. So I had to stop eating banana splits and |
| consuming what I would call "a well balanced diet." | | | | candy bars and everything in-between. Of course I |
| Frankly, I doubt that they really knew what one was. | | | | could not blame my parents because I was now "all |
| Dad, for example, would encourage me to eat | | | | grown up" and made my own decisions. But it wasn't |
| chocolate candy bars for quick energy, with which | | | | an easy decision to eliminate sugar from my diet. |
| instructions I was only too happy to comply. If I | | | | Is There Any Hope at All? |
| wanted hamburger, fries, and malts or banana splits, | | | | Changing my dietary habits was a great alternative |
| it made no difference to them. Needless to say, I | | | | for me since it freed me from spending the "best |
| was overweight and I am likewise convinced that my | | | | half" of my life on pain medications. Because of my |
| system was well on the way to becoming plugged | | | | successful experience with alternative medicine, it |
| up at an all too young age. | | | | was only as one would suspect that our children |
| What Does That Have to Do With Arthritis? | | | | would be open to alternative medicine as a viable |
| Yes, I did in fact develop arthritis, and there are | | | | consideration for their health needs as well. You can |
| millions who also suffer from this loathsome and | | | | only imagine the delight that my wife and I had upon |
| painful disease. Much later in my life, my | | | | learning that our daughter-in-law had been delivered |
| daughter-in-law was also affected adversely by | | | | from all of the effects of rheumatoid arthritis by the |
| arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis as a matter of fact. | | | | use of an herbal supplement. |
| Anyone who has or is suffering from this malady | | | | If you or someone you love is suffering from |
| knows only too well that the word "atrocious" just | | | | arthritis, I highly suggest that you get advice from a |
| about defines it in a fair to middling fashion. | | | | nutritionist about how you can modify your eating |
| In my case, it had the potential of being life | | | | habits. I also suggest you consider what benefits |
| threatening in view of limiting my ability to defend | | | | might be available to you from supplementing your |
| myself adequately as a policeman. In my | | | | nutrition with herbs as well. If you have a hard time |
| daughter-in-law's case, she was the mother of six | | | | breaking free from sugars, there are herbs that can |
| and had all of attendant responsibilities that being a | | | | suppress those cravings. So don't give up hope! Your |
| wife and mother imply. Again, when a member of | | | | freedom from arthritis might be just around the |
| one's own family is affected adversely with any | | | | corner. |