A healthy diet can tip the scales against chronic pain
One in five 鈥� or 1.6 million 鈥� Australians struggle with chronic pain, an acute and debilitating condition. Globally, the figure is higher, at around 30% of the population, with higher rates among women and people who are overweight or obese. But there鈥檚 an easy and accessible way for sufferers of chronic pain to reduce its severity, from the has shown.
By exploring associations between body fat, diet and pain, researchers found that a greater consumption of foods within the was directly associated with lower levels of body pain, particularly among women. Notably, these findings were independent of a person鈥檚 weight. This means that a healthy diet can help reduce chronic pain, regardless of body composition.
鈥淚t鈥檚 common knowledge that eating well is good for your health and wellbeing. But knowing that simple changes to your diet could offset chronic pain, could be lifechanging,鈥� one of the researchers, Sue Ward, said. 鈥淚n our study, higher consumption of core foods 鈥� which are your vegetables, fruits, grains, lean meats, dairy and alternatives 鈥� was related to less pain, and this was regardless of body weight.鈥�
鈥楤etter diet quality is associated with reduced body pain in adults regardless of adiposity: findings from the Whyalla Intergenerational Study of Health鈥�, a 2024 paper on this study, has been published open access in Nutrition Research and you can read it at .
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