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Rheumatoid Arthritis app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 5968 ratings )
Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: Personal Remedies, LLC
3.99 USD
Current version: 2.7, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 29 Apr 2014
App size: 3.62 Mb

Choose This not That for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Inside this colorful app, you will find easy to follow suggestions on how to improve your health through nutrition and the food choices you make every day. This app provides comprehensive and actionable nutrition guidelines for how to reduce your risk, prevent and combat RA, its symptoms and comorbidities.

There are a number of nutrients and natural food items that play a significant role in dealing with RA. If you rather tackle health issues and risks through proper nutrition and lifestyle changes then this app is for you!

A number of powerful, unique and interactive features make this app so different and superior to others in the market:

• Separate guidelines for those who might be at risk with any of the following common conditions along with RA:

- Anemia (iron deficiency)
- Depression
- Excess body weight or obesity
- Hardening of Arteries
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Joints well-being
- Osteoporosis
- Stress
- Vitamin D deficiency

• Comprehensive dietary guidelines on autoimmunity including detoxification, anti-inflammation, leaky gut and Microbiome health.

• Is this food good for me? This feature answers the common question if a food of your choice helpful or harmful to your personal situation. And it does so in an easy to understand and colorful graphic form.

• Top-5 recommendations on what to eat/do, and what not to.

• Food Suggestions. The best food choices within a food group, based on your personal profile. An extremely valuable tool when at restaurants or when grocery shopping. Over 850 natural food items and growing number of recipes are included.

• Suggestions on appropriate life style choices, alternative therapies and herbal remedies, when such options are promising and available to you.

• ACTIONABLE information on what is good, what is bad, and what is neutral for your condition(s). We dont just point you to a food group. We single out specific food items, and give you an ordered list of helpful and harmful foods within each food group.

The primary sources used by this app are US government agencies such as USDA, NIH (National Institute of Health), PubMed, and leading clinics & universities.

Personal Remedies is the producer of the worlds first e-dietitian and publisher of the largest collection of health and nutrition apps for chronic conditions. Based in metro-Boston, home to the highest ranking healthcare providers and academic institutions in the world.

This app is updated by our team on an ongoing basis. Updates happen seamlessly, and do NOT require frequent inconvenient downloads.

“This technology was developed using the most current clinical evidence-based information that is available in the US. Behind this technology there is a team of expert clinicians, scientists, endocrinologists, oncologists, and other specialists who are passionate about bridging the gap between expert knowledge and the patient.“
Katya Tsaioun, PhD, Nutrition, Tufts University; L.D.N.

“Proper nutrition and other alternative treatments show great promise in preventing and treating many of the illnesses that we deal with every day. I encourage all my patients to follow appropriate nutrition and research other options for themselves. The Choose This Not That series are an excellent step towards improving people’s knowledge in this area.”
Shahin Tabatabaei, MD
Mass General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

“As an orthopedic surgeon, I love that my patients stay engaged in their health and actively see what foods they should consume and avoid, using their smart device.”
Bruce Gomberg, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon