Muesli in breakfast every day can keep arthritis away

NewsBharati    13-Jan-2018
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Mumbai, January 13: In contemporary lifestyle, arthritis is a major problem. To fight this miserable disease, there’s an easily available weapon in front of your hand. Consuming more fiber-rich foods including Museli can positively affect chronic inflammatory joint diseases as it helps to make bones stronger.Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have come out with the new finding.


 

The key to the effect our diet has on our health are intestinal bacteria: healthy intestinal flora consists of a multitude of different species of bacteria. Every adult carries approximately two kilograms of benign bacteria in their intestines. They help our digestion by breaking fiber down into its individual components, which can then be absorbed by the body. it is not the intestinal bacteria themselves, but rather their metabolites which affect the immune system and therefore have a knock-on effect on autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

The FAU scientists under the leadership of Dr. Mario Zaiss from Department of Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen were able to show that a healthy diet rich in fiber is capable of changing intestinal bacteria in such a way that more short-chained fatty acids, in particular, propionate, are formed.

‘Our findings offer a promising approach for developing innovative therapies for inflammatory joint diseases as well as for treating osteoporosis, which is often suffered by women after the menopause. We are not able to give any specific recommendations for a bacteria-friendly diet at the moment, but eating muesli every morning as well as enough fruit and vegetables throughout the day helps to maintain a rich variety of bacterial species,’ Dr. Mario Zaiss, leader of the study said.

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