Although most experts are not yet ready to endorse major changes in diet, they are cautiously acknowledging that certain foods may affect painful joint inflammation, the hallmark of this chronic and sometimes crippling disease.

Does diet have any effect on rheumatoid arthritis? Not long ago, the leading rheumatology textbooks confidently dismissed the notion - if they considered it at all. However, thanks to medical scientists who have been researching the subject over the past decade, the...