Fish as medicine for rheumatoid arthritis

Eating fish may help reduce joint pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis

Eating fish may help reduce the joint pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis, a new study has found.
 
Researchers studied 176 people in a larger health study who had had physical exams and blood tests and filled out food frequency questionnaires that indicated their consumption of various types of non-fried fish.
 
The study, in Arthritis Care & Research, categorised the participants into groups by fish consumption: less than one serving a month, one a month, one to two a week, and more than two a week. To rate the severity of symptoms they used a “disease activity score”