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If you have psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis and you are overweight, the benefits of weight loss are clear: reduced inflammation, less severe skin disease and joint pain, improved mobility and a dramatically lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and liver disease. But what is the best way to go about losing weight?

There are hundreds of websites devoted to dieting and weight loss to choose from – and that is part of the problem. Almost without exception, any diet that makes promises about rapid weight loss is bogus and should be avoided. Read more about why it is important to maintain a healthy weight

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For those that have psoriasis around 1 in 3 may develop an associated psoriatic arthritis (PsA), which is about 400,000 people, or around 0.6% of the UK population.

PsA causes pain and swelling in the joints and tendons, accompanied by stiffness particularly in the mornings.

The most commonly affected sites are the hands, feet, lower back, neck and knees, with movement in these areas becoming severely limited.