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Monitoring your diet is crucial to avoiding extra pain and minimizing the risk of weight gain, which often accompanies fibromyalgia. An improved diet entails eating high-protein, low-carbohydratemeals and regulating when and how much you eat. Furthermore, sugars and other flavor enhancers like aspartame have been shown to cause pain, so avoiding these can be beneficial.
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A particularly frustrating problem for many fibromyalgia patients is the tendency to gain weight. We eat less but notice little, if any, difference. And it’s difficult to exercise more because of the pain. According to Mark Pellegrino, MD, in his book Fibromyalgia: Up Close and Personal, it’s not unusual for someone…
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