| If you're searching for foods for gout, you'll find 2 | | | | To help you, here are just some of the high |
| lists here. One shows uric acid foods to avoid that | | | | purine foods that you should avoid: |
| cause gout, and the other, foods for a sensible | | | | Game, fatty red meat, organ meat, mincemeat, |
| gout diet. | | | | meat extracts, gravies, some fish, shellfish, |
| When you are a gout sufferer, your diet plays a | | | | poultry, legumes, yeast and yeast extracts. And |
| key role in helping to eliminate your gout | | | | although not food, you have to avoid alcohol. Beer |
| symptoms, and preventing recurring gout. And | | | | is especially known to trigger gout attacks. |
| you need to prevent recurring gout, as too many | | | | And here are sensible foods for a gout diet you |
| attacks over time can cause permanent joint | | | | can eat: |
| damage, even kidney problems. | | | | Low-fat dairy produce, high vitamin C foods, |
| The cause of your symptoms are needle-like | | | | complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, |
| microscopic crystals of uric acid in your joints and | | | | green leafy vegetables (not asparagus, cauliflower |
| connective tissue. And these can form when you | | | | or spinach), fruit, and, drink lots of water, at least |
| have high uric acid blood levels. | | | | 3 liters per day. |
| Where does uric acid come from? It is produced | | | | Now, even within these food groups, there are |
| as a byproduct of the breakdown of chemical | | | | variances in purine content - see vegetables |
| compounds in your body called purines. But here's | | | | above, and some fish are worse than others, |
| the thing, as well as being present in your body, | | | | some poultry is worse than others, and so on. |
| they are present in the food you eat. | | | | Not only that, but as everybody's metabolism is |
| The thing is that different foods have different | | | | somewhat different, some gout sufferers can eat |
| levels of purine content, so you need to be able | | | | certain foods without a problem, whereas others |
| to identify and avoid foods that are high in | | | | can eat the same food and suffer a gout attack. |
| purines, i.e. high uric acid producing foods. | | | | You need to find out where you stand on this. |
| A general rule is that high purine foods are foods | | | | And of course this is only your diet, you also |
| that are high in protein. But it is only generally | | | | need to consider other issues that can raise your |
| true, so you must get to know the full list of 'uric | | | | gout risk, such as your lifestyle, your weight, |
| acid' foods to avoid, and, those that are relatively | | | | family history, medicines you may be taking, any |
| low in purines which can form part of your gout | | | | underlying medical conditions, etc. |
| diet. | | | | |