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Studies show that certain foods like red meat are pro-inflammatory, driving conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. So it would make sense that these pro-inflammatory foods could also affect plantar fasciitis, another inflammatory condition. “Although no direct evidence-based literature has been established on plantar fasciitis, I can indirectly relate decreasing inflammation with a whole food plant-based diet,” says Jenneffer Pulapaka, D.P.M., podiatric surgeon and CEO of DeLand Foot & Leg Center in DeLand, Fla.