Gout Treatment: How The Right Diet Can Help

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Gout Treatment How The Right Diet Can Help
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Gout Treatment How The Right Diet Can Help
Characteristics of Gout

• Causes extreme pain and suffering
• One of the most painful physical disabilities
• Affects both men and women

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Gout Treatment How The Right Diet Can Help
What Medical Researchers Say
Scientists found that by following a healthy
diet, you may be able to minimize, and in some
cases even avoid, gout attacks. Cutting down or
totally eliminating those food types that can
worsen the condition of patients suffering from
this ailment would also help a lot in minimizing
gout attacks.
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Gout Treatment How The Right Diet Can Help
Gout Attacks

• Pain is sometimes unbearable
• Tend to recur and frequently affect the big
  toe, knee, and ankle joints

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Avoid Purine-Rich Foods
Purines are natural substances found in all of
the body's cells and in almost all foods. They
provide part of the chemical structure of our
genes and the genes of plants and
animals. Certain foods, however, contain
concentrated amounts of purines, usually these
high-purine foods are also high-protein foods.
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Gout Treatment
Dietary Guidelines

• Avoid purines and uric acid
• Love high potassium foods
• Consume cherries regularly
• Follow a strict and gout friendly diet during
  breakfast, lunch and dinner

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
What Happens When Uric Acid Levels Rise?
When uric acid levels in the blood and other
parts of the body rises, the body organs
responsible for helping keep blood levels of uric
acid balanced may not be able to cope with the
burden, leading to excessive accumulation of uric
acid in various parts of the body. Usually when
uric acid accumulates, crystals start to form in
the tendons, joints, kidneys, and other organs.
This accumulation of uric acid crystals is called
gouty arthritis, or simply "gout.
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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
What Happens When Uric Acid Levels Rise?
The pain that an individual feels during a gout
attack is caused by the formation of uric acid
crystals in the tissues of the joints. By
making sure that you stick to a low-purine diet,
you may be able to minimize the painful attacks
of gout.
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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
High Purine Foods

• Anchovies
• Herring
• Kidney
• Liver
• Mackerel
• Meat Extracts
• Mincemeat
• Mussels
• Sardines
• Yeast

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Medium-High Purine Foods

• Asparagus
• Bacon
• Beef
• Bluefish
• Bouillon
• Calf Tongue
• Carp
• Cauliflower
• Chicken
• Chicken
• Soup
• Codfish
• Crab
• Duck
• Goose
• Halibut
• Ham
• Kidney
• Beans

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
High Potassium Foods

• Potatoes with skin
• Bananas
• Leafy green vegetables
• Beans
• Raw vegetable juices

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Consume cherries regularly
Eating cherries each day, whether they are the
sweet or sour kind, is also very helpful for
patients suffering from gout attack. Many people
have attested to the efficacy of this kind of
natural gout treatment method and has since
consumed around 20 cherries a day to keep the
disorder under control.
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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Consume cherries regularly

• In a study of 633 gout patients who ate 20
  cherries per day, equivalent to two servings or 1
  cup, researchers found that
• Having two servings of cherry fruit in the past
  48 hours lowers the risk of a gout attack of up
  to 50.
• Consumption of cherry extract (any amount) in
  the past two days lowers up to 40 the risk of
  recurrent gout flare-ups.

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Gout friendly diet for breakfast

• Apples
• Oranges
• Mangoes
• Apricot
• Figs
• Whole Wheat Bread
• Buttermilk

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Gout friendly diet for lunch

• Steamed vegetables like
• Celery
• Beets
• Watercress
• Lettuce
• Turnips
• Tomatoes
• Carrots
• Squash
• Potatoes
• Cabbage

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Gout friendly diet for lunch

• Wheat Bread
• Buttermilk
• Cottage Cheese

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Gout Treatment Dietary Guidelines
Gout friendly diet for dinner

• Mung Beans
• Alfalfa
• Tomatoes
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Whole Wheat Bread
• Buttermilk

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Gout Treatment How the Right Diet Can Help
Prevent Gout Attacks Through A Healthy Diet
Having a healthy diet could prevent gout attacks.
This is perhaps one of the best gout treatments
that you could implement, which would ultimately
free you from the pains that gout brings. Even
gout patients who have been into conventional
medicine still resort to these dietary
changes. As long as you follow the preceding
guidelines, you will definitely be able to
prevent gout attacks.
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Gout Treatment How the Right Diet Can Help
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