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by Ron Kepsun

When people think about gout diet, they can be confused. Many people do not realize, or understand, that their diet can directly affect their pain. Gout comes in attacks, meaning that there are times that you are gout free. By working with your diet, you can help to take out the chances of these attacks. Knowing what causes these attacks can help you to tweak your gout diet to help.

Gout is caused by a build up of uric acid in blood. Uric acid comes from the breakdown of purines. Some people have too much uric acid created in their system, while others have issues ridding their body of uric acid. Either way, the backup of uric acid is the direct cause of gout, and the problems. By changing your diet, you can help with the issue of uric acid.

Don’t Eat Meat and Seafood

While many people enjoy meat and seafood in their everyday diets, they are two foods that should be avoided for the most part by people who are trying to tailor diets to their gout issues. These foods have chemicals that break down into uric acid, the leading cause of the gout. Because they have such a high level of these chemicals, it is recommended that these foods are avoided by those wishing to both prevent gout attacks, and treat current attacks.

Foods to Eat

There are multiple types of food, that are known to have very low amount of the chemical (purine) that breaks down into uric acid. Many green vegetables, and tomatoes, are very low in purine. By eating them, you are not adding to count of uric acid in your body. Any type of fruit is a good thing to eat if you are trying to curb issues that are related to gout. Other foods that can be low in these uric acid-producing chemicals include butter, cheese, eggs, breads and cereals, coffee, peanut butter, and nuts. Also, and low fat dairy products can help with gout during attacks.

By modifying your diet, you can affect the issues that you have with gout. By avoiding the foods that can cause gout pain, you are helping by not adding more uric acid to your system than is necessary. By taking supplements and other vitamins, and foods, you can help to remove more of the uric acid in your body.

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by Kathy Nelson

After one or two gout attacks it is normal for people to start doing some research into what they can do to stop the terrible debilitating pain that gout causes. It doesn’t normally take very long for someone to tell that the greatest cause of gout is your diet.

So the usual cry is “I have gout what can I eat?” or they will mention their favorite foods and ask if they are ok to eat, can I eat eggs if I have gout, or cantaloupes or pork? It is easy to get tied up in your few favorite foods and forget to look at the bigger picture.

Stopping the pain is the first thing on your mind when you are having the attack but as the pain wears off and you realize that you will have to make some changes in your life then suddenly you start to think that maybe you won’t have another attack or maybe the next won’t be so bad and you will be able to bear the pain.

You need to start thinking about the long term solutions to your gout and the pain you are suffering as a result of it. Yes short term remedies are fine at first, but the real pain is caused by a build up of uric acid crystals in the joints. This can be solved by taking some steps to help in the long term, such as watching your diet and eating the correct foods.

Curing your gout is not a matter of changing your eating habits for a while, like anything that affects your health you need to make a conscious decision to change for the better for ever not just for now.

So what lifestyle changes should you be making right now to prevent another gout attack? Get a small pocket diary and make a note of everything you eat and drink for the next two weeks, this means you can look at your diet with certainty rather than thinking you eat to much of this and not enough of that. Two weeks is a good amount of time as it allows you to stop trying to be good and only eat salads so the diary looks good.

You should avoid foods that are high in purines and that is what allows your body to make the uric acid that crystallizes and causes your gout. So the first thing you need to do is cut items that contain this out of your diet.

Keep the notebook that you have used to keep a record of your food intake for another two weeks and see how many foods containing this you have managed to cut out of your diet. Then move onto another type of food which you need to cut out. Over a period of time you should see a reduction in gout attacks, combine this with increasing your intake of water and you should see good benefits. So are there any foods which actually help with gout problems?

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It is a regular query asked by sufferers of gout, I have gout what can I eat?. We hear it a lot and it can be hard to answer because everyone is different and everyones gout symptoms and treatments can be different.