Researchers at the University of East Anglia and London investigated the potential links between joint disease and diet and found that women who consumed a great deal of allium vegetables which are part of the garlic family had lower incident rates of hip osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis that is suffered by adults and affects about eight million people across Britain with women much more likely to suffer from the disease than men.
The disease causes disability and pain by affecting the spine, hip, and knees of those who are elderly and middle-aged. At the moment there is no effective way to treat osteoarthritis other than pain relief medication and eventually joint replacements.
Although researchers have discovered a link between osteoarthritis and body weight this is the first study that takes a close look at how diet itself could prevent the disease from striking.
The Welcome trust Arthritis Research Britain, and Dunhill Medical trust jointly funded the project which took a close look at a thousand female twins all of which showed no symptoms of the joint disease.
The study included a close look at the dieting patterns of the twins in the study and took a close look at x-ray images of the twins which helped them diagnose signs of early osteoarthritis in many of the participants.
The study researchers concluded that those who consumed a diet that was rich in vegetables and fruit were less likely to show any evidence of the early signs of osteoarthritis.
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