Gout Prevention Diet That Works

A gout prevention diet is easy to assemble but perhaps more difficult to stick with since an effective gout prevention diet removes much of the food we love. But the agonies of gout are such that you must stick rigidly to such a diet in order to help prevent further gout attacks.

Why is your diet so important in preventing further gout attacks? As with many health issues, "you are what you eat", and gout is no different. At the root of gout is too much uric acid in your blood which then deposits in crystal form in your joints causing agonising gout.

But uric acid doesn't just suddenly appear from nowhere, it's formed when 'purines' breakdown in our bodies after carrying out their important work of converting food to energy and genes to proteins. Purines are chemical compounds that appear naturally in our body cells and in much of our foods.

So the key is the prevention of the build-up of excess uric acid in the blood. And since uric acid is formed out of purines, as a gout sufferer, you must reduce the amount of purines you consume through your food. To start with you need to be able to identify what these gout foods are. Luckily, for the most part, purine-rich foods are also high-protein foods so they are perhaps more easily identified that way.

To help you further here is a selection of foods to be avoided as part of your gout prevention diet: Red meat, mincemeat, meat extracts, broth, consomme, offal (liver, heart, kidneys, brains, etc.), poultry (particularly turkey), shellfish, some seafood (e.g. herrings, mackerel, sardines, fish roe), baker's & brewer's yeast, yeast extracts, beans, lentils, peas, asparagus, cauliflower, mushrooms.

One other important thing. Alcohol, particularly beer, is known to play an important part in encouraging gout attacks because it interferes with the removal of uric acid from the body. Best to avoid it.

But before I list some gout prevention diet foods you can eat, let me draw your attention to one of the most important things you can do to help prevent gout; drink plenty of water! And if you're suffering from gout you should be drinking about 12 eight-ounce glasses a day, to help your body flush the uric acid crystals out of your system.

So what can you eat as part of your gout prevention diet? Basically anything that isn't high in purines. Here are some 'safe' gout foods: Low-fat dairy products, high-vitamin C foods, complex carbohydrates (e.g. breads, cereals, pasta, rice, etc.), essential fatty acids (e.g. tuna, salmon, seeds), vegetables (except those mentioned above), cherries, strawberries, blueberries, grapes.

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