Several diet revision studies have shown benefit for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. These studies support common and persistent claims in the community that diet revision has benefits for arthritis sufferers. 
 
Brostoff  stated that despite the conviction of patients with joint disease that foods cause their symptoms, little scientific attention has been paid to this relationship. Abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract are commonly found in rheumatic disease.

Many years ago, Sr. Wm. Osler first suggested that dietary proteins were causes of skin bruising and arthritis. The term "palindromic arthritis" was used to describe transient joint swelling and pain in food-sensitive patients. The occurrence of transient inflammatory arthritis after eating reactive foods with improvement between attacks is one pattern of food allergy. The food connection to more chronic and progressive inflammatory disease is difficult to recognize because the reactions are delayed and there may be little or no improvement between attacks.

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