This way of eating helps. Anything that increases the blood flow to muscles, and also increases the oxygen and nutrients will help.
That said, I have just finished reading this book:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/divided ... 0060851781and now you're going to think I'm nuts, but whatever.
Since I read this book, I have had a dramatic decrease in my burning back pain that I've been told is fibromyalgia.
Someone else in my family had back pain that went away when this person read Dr. Sarno's first book on back pain.