I don't believe you get rid of arthritis and we aren't very good at preventing it either, but I started believing in diet for prevention in my late forties. So maybe the diabetes diet helps my arthritis pain because I eat antioxidant foods to prevent more cancer. I know that when I was in college with my sons and my knees hurt so bad from walking, and they swelled when I put them up on the couch to rest, I quit eating sweets and quit baking and the knees got better.
Every birthday and holiday when I baked and ate the food, I had pain. This was many years before the diabetes, but it was after the hypoglycemia problems which I blamed on stress. I solved that problem eating a diabetic diet and eating six times a day. I did not understand that I was headed to diabetes anyway.
These are difficult health problems to manage. I know understand that "you are what you eat." I also know your body gets old and wears out but you keep on living, if God chooses. Today I want to do something nice for someone else, because it helps my attitude. Dorisena