This is a great discussion. Thank you all. I have recently been "tentatively" diagnosed with PMR (male, 68 years old, very active, 4 days per week in the gym), and everything became painful. Pain in shoulders and upper arms, pain in hamstrings and quadriceps. It hurt to get up from a chair. My doc (who is great) was reluctant to make the PMR diagnosis, but now I'm on a very low dose of prednisone (10 MG/day). It's night and day. I have almost no pain.
I'm going to try to the "no booze" experiment starting today. My only "poison" is red wine, but it's alcohol, and I probably have 2 glasses per night (one while cooking, one while eating). I'm cutting it out entirely to see the effect. I'm guessing it will be significant, but we'll see.
Other than that - I eat very well. But are there foods that you really think set the inflammation off? I suspect that the sulfites in red wine are not good in any way. Don't eat much processed stuff ... but I do like pizza. Sigh.