We all know that a balanced, varied and healthy diet has a positive influence on our health and reduces the risk of many diseases. But, is there a specific diet for osteoarthritis? It has long being known that the Mediterranean Diet has a favorable effect on...
When we are overweight, our health deteriorates, it is no longer just a visual issue. Therefore, losing weight means reducing the risk of suffering or developing diseases and reducing ailments and symptoms. In the case of suffering from osteoarthritis, the improvement in the quality of...
OAFI is the Osteoarthritis Foundation International, the first and only Foundation exclusively devoted to people with osteoarthritis worldwide. The Foundation was created in Barcelona in October 2016 with the aim of leading the fight against osteoarthritis by promoting education, prevention, treatment and research into everything related...
300 million people suffer from osteoarthritis all over the world, a figure that has doubled in the past 30 years and affects increasingly younger population. Obesity, ageing, and sports as running or football are among the main causes of this increase. In Spain, the...
The European project PREVENTOMICS will develop a system for sending personalised dietary and lifestyle advice for the prevention of non-communicable diseases through nutrition. PREVENTOMICS development will provide personalised nutition tools accessible to everyone, aimed at improving health and preventing the onset of diseases. The...
The Mediterranean diet has been associated with reduced cardiovascular risks, a reduction in the appearance of certain subtypes of cancer or chronic diseases and better cognitive health. Recently, a bibliographic review developed by a group of several Spanish centers has compiled the existing information on...
OAFI attended the 27th International Conference on Sports Rehabilitation and Traumatology, organised by Isokinetic Medical Group which took place at the Camp Nou in Barcelona from June 2 to 4 June 2018. More than 3.000 attendees, international experts in football medicine and sports medicine gathered...
Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, have shown that patients with osteoarthritis of the knee who changed their usual diet to a Mediterranean diet for 16 weeks, in addition to losing weight, significantly decreased levels of a cartilage pro-inflammatory molecule, called IL-1alpha, compared to...