No: Aside from keeping weight well controlled, diet should not play a major role in spinal stenosis.
Answered 9/25/2011
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Yes: Getting obese can lead to increased lumbar degenerative changes leading to further narrowing of the spinal canal leading to increased degree of spinal stenosis.
Answered 9/8/2013
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Not really: Diet can affect a lot of things, but once you already have stenosis, diet has little or no effect with the exception that carrying extra body weight can certainly make it more symptomatic.
Answered 4/9/2018
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