Great News:There are Healthy Foods that Fight Pain!

I hope you have been eating your berries this summer and lots of them! If you have, then your pain symptoms have probably been down. In an online article, there were 14 foods, of which 6 were berries (including cherries), that are natural pain relievers. Now I know why I like strawberries so much! But the best berry is one we don't often get here--the Saskatoon. It grows in the north and in Canada and is a cousin of the blueberry only with 40 times the calcium per serving. And who doesn't need more calcium as we get closer to heaven??

Of course, you probably already know it's good to eat fish, but ones that pack the biggest punch against pain are salmon, herring and mackerel. Along with those are the OTC fish oil caps you can take if you don't like eating fish. I take at least 2 capsules every day and sometimes 3. They come in huge bottles and are relatively cheap per capsule. Don't worry, you won't start smelling like a fish if you take them.

Then there are those wonderful vegetables and spices: Celery and its seeds, turmeric and ginger. So wash off a celery stalk and start munching (minus the cream cheese or peanut butter). Small wonder my homemade chicken soup is so soothing when I am sick--I use lots of celery and celery seed in it.

As for nuts and more seeds, walnuts top the tree along with walnut oil. Then we also have flax seed and its oil. Ground flax seed is available in huge bags at Sam's in the drugstore section. I just finished a bag from a year ago--use some on your cereal every morning!

Well, you can count on no adverse reactions or drug interactions when you plunge into nature's bounty to counter your pain. Hats off to real comfort food for those with chronic pain disease. For further reading go to http://www.care2.com/greenliving/13-foods-that-fight-pain.html on these foods. Thanks to Michele H. for passing this along, too.