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“Some of
my biggest
enjoyments are
food. I can’t cut
certain items
out entirely.”
ron Chef Michael Symon has been living with He owns two barbecue restaurants and a burger joint! Meat
rheumatoid arthritis and external lupus for years, wasn’t the culprit, but dairy was. “That was brutal,” he says.
but he didn’t do much about it until recently. “In my “I like lattes, I like cheese. Some of my biggest enjoyments
twenties and thirties, I could grind through the discomfort are food—I can’t cut certain items out entirely.” Instead, he
better,” he says. Eventually he realized he needed to make devised a plan to avoid his triggers without changing the
some changes—starting with his diet. He tried eliminating way he cooks. The resulting recipes are in his new book,
potentially inflammatory foods like gluten, dairy and meat, Fix It with Food. It’s packed with healthy meals, but Michael
all the while hoping that the latter wasn’t causing his pain: says it’s not a diet book. “You still get to eat yummy food.”
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