Food [February 22]

[Caroline]

I avoid:
Tomatoes - I don’t like them anyway and they have an effect on my skin.
Peanut butter - I only eat occasionally, when I eat that structurally, e.g. every day, my feet start to hurt.
Blue grapes - though I don’t feel an effect, it is part of things to avoid in the Psorinovo diet as it contains grape acid that can have an effect on the PsA.

I have not yet found food that has a positive effect.

I love all of the above.... I did try at one point to cut back on nightshades but didn't notice a difference.  I eat natural peanut butter now (it's ok, I find it a bit dry at times probably due to the oil separating and me not getting it mixed well enough) and grapes I rarely eat but do like.  What does the peanut butter hurt your feet?  Or I should ask what is it in the peanut butter that you think is connected to your feet hurting?

Peanuts (and therefore also peanut sauce and peanut butter) and all with peanut oil (arachid oil) and burned nuts such as cashew nuts, pistachio nuts, and also salad oil.
It is the peanut oil, or arachid oil, that causes inflammation with many psoriasis patients.
And that is why, when I eat peanut butter, and do that more often, do feel inflammation in my feet. Stopping with eating peanut butter solves this problem in about a week (for me).

I try to eat only non-burned nuts, as nuts are quite healthy.

[Kat]

Peanuts (and therefore also peanut sauce and peanut butter) and all with peanut oil (arachid oil) and burned nuts such as cashew nuts, pistachio nuts, and also salad oil.
It is the peanut oil, or arachid oil, that causes inflammation with many psoriasis patients.
And that is why, when I eat peanut butter, and do that more often, do feel inflammation in my feet. Stopping with eating peanut butter solves this problem in about a week (for me).

I try to eat only non-burned nuts, as nuts are quite healthy.

So you mean non toasted or roasted nuts? I couldn't find anything on burned vs non-burned nuts other than how NOT to burn (overcook) them. So I'm thinking like for peanuts you would mean eat right out of the shell? No cooking?

I didn't know that cooking nuts caused inflammation.... interesting. I'll have to read up on it.

[Caroline]

Peanuts (and therefore also peanut sauce and peanut butter) and all with peanut oil (arachid oil) and burned nuts such as cashew nuts, pistachio nuts, and also salad oil.
It is the peanut oil, or arachid oil, that causes inflammation with many psoriasis patients.
And that is why, when I eat peanut butter, and do that more often, do feel inflammation in my feet. Stopping with eating peanut butter solves this problem in about a week (for me).

I try to eat only non-burned nuts, as nuts are quite healthy.

So you mean non toasted or roasted nuts?  I couldn't find anything on burned vs non-burned nuts other than how NOT to burn (overcook) them.  So I'm thinking like for peanuts you would mean eat right out of the shell?  No cooking? 

I didn't know that cooking nuts caused inflammation.... interesting.  I'll have to read up on it.

I think that is a translation thing.
When I write burn, I suppose it is meant roasted…

I don’t know, Peanuts in the shell are not roasted? I don’t have a clue.

But I do know that the peanuts you buy in a bag, salted and so, are almost always roasted.

It is part of old diet prescriptions belonging to DMF medication, prescribed by doctors over here in the netherlands.

[Kat]

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I don’t know, Peanuts in the shell are not roasted?  I don’t have a clue.

But I do know that the peanuts you buy in a bag, salted and so, are almost always roasted.

It is part of old diet prescriptions belonging to DMF medication, prescribed by doctors over here in the netherlands.

I know you can get peanuts here in the shell called "raw" meaning uncooked. When I was a kid we had pecans and walnuts in the shell. I hadn't really thought about it honestly and buy them already shelled in a bag or container now not really thinking of it they are cooked and the nutritional values changing. Well I know the peanuts are usually roasted as they are sold as roasted peanuts but hadn't paid much attention to the others. Going to have to start looking for the raw versions and cracking open some nuts again! Thanks Caroline, these are things I don't consider so it's good to know.

[D Foster]

Honey roasted cashews are the best.

[Caroline]

Honey roasted cashews are the best.

They taste great but are probably roasted in peanut oil.

You can better eat natural ones.
Pecan nuts and walnuts are also excellent to eat. And hazelnuts and almonds also.

[Bill]

My take on psoriasis triggers is different, in that I view such things as measures of disease rather than causes. With my disease active and unmanaged, a few pieces of toast and a glass of milk would give me polyarthropathy. With a well managed disease I don't have any reactions to food: If I did, I would see it as a sign of failing treatment rather than an indication to go on a silly diet. Trying to control psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with diet was stupid and caused me harm.

[Forest Walker]

My take on psoriasis triggers is different, in that I view such things as measures of disease rather than causes. With my disease active and unmanaged, a few pieces of toast and a glass of milk would give me polyarthropathy. With a well managed disease I don't have any reactions to food: If I did, I would see it as a sign of failing treatment rather than an indication to go on a silly diet. Trying to control psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with diet was stupid and caused me harm.

That's insightful! 

I really wanted diet to work and was well disciplined about it.  Except, being on a low residue diet, anyway, for Crohn's, I could not find a way to eliminate grains.  Meat/fish alone with juicing did not provide enough energy.  I lost weight and stamina and the psoriasis did not improve.  

Mine is beginning to be managed through medication.  Scalp, torso, arms, and upper thighs are almost clear.  Legs are taking a while to catch up, but they're better, too.  So in 2.25 months of Methotrexate, I have better skin than when I tried to go by diet alone.  

"Trying to control psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with diet was stupid and caused me harm."  I think the same applies to my experience.

Like you, I don't notice reactions to food now that I'm getting better with Methotrexate.  Thanks, Bill.