The diet rich in garlic, onion and leeks could diminish your jeopardy of developing the most common form of arthritis. The team of researchers from King’s College London and the University of East Anglia examined the potential connection between diet and agonizing joint condition.
It was found that women who consumed a lot of allium vegetables, which are present in garlic family, frequently had lower levels of osteoarthritis. The garlic compounds have shown a great potential in treating the disease. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis in adults.
It affects millions of people worldwide and women are more prone to develop it than men. It causes pain and disability by affecting the knees, hip and spine in the middle-aged and elderly people. At present there is no effective treatment for the condition except pain relief and ultimately joint replacement.
This is the first study to investigate deeply how diet could impact on growth and deterrence of the disease. The research team conducted a thorough estimation of the diet models of the twins and scrutinized these beside x-ray images, which captured the extent of early osteoarthritis in hips, knees and spine of the participants.
It was established that those who consumed a healthy diet with a high intake of fruit and vegetables, particularly alliums such as garlic, there was less substantiation of early osteoarthritis in the hip joint A compound called diallyl disulphide found in garlic restricts the amount of cartilage-damaging enzymes when introduced to a human cartilage cell-line in the laboratory.
Although they do not know yet if eating garlic will escort to elevated levels of this component in the joint, these results may point the way towards future treatments and avoidance of hip osteoarthritis, explained Dr Frances Williams, study author from the Department of Twin Research at King’s College London.
If their results are inveterate by follow-up studies this will point the way towards dietary intercession or targeted drug therapy for people with osteoarthritis, added Dr Williams.