Fructose

[c matthews]

I have read on here about the benefits to reducing your fructose intake , so having tried most other remedies , I'm going to give it a go.
I have been eating 7/8 pieces of fruit a day , for as long as I can remember , so I plan to reduce to 3/4 and see if that helps ?

[popeye53]

im also eliminating fructose from my diet,ill let you know.i was never a label reader but its a eye opener how many food and drink products besides the obvious have fructose and cane syrup.i have tried cider viniger,baking soda etc,etc,and none work for me but i will continue to eat cherries.good luck and keep us updated and i will do the same.

[c matthews]

Thanks Popeye, we are on a journey of discovery !!! Hope reducing my fruit intake to 3/4 a day will help . Please keep me informed how you get on

[gracei]

Hmmm, I haven't try it. So how was the result mattews?

[tonyccc]

Here is my story. It was the middle of the night. I opened my eyes and was awakened by
earth shattering pain. My big toe was throbbing. In fact it felt like a towering inferno.
I turned on the light and was startled to see that my great toe was 3 times its normal size.
It was bright red and red hot, just like a firecracker and the pain was the most severe that
I’ve ever experienced by far.
The suffering that I had to endure was almost unbelievable.
That was over ten years ago. At the beginning I was having attacks
every 6 months. Then gradually I was getting them every 3 months, then every month and
eventually
every week.It started at my big toe and then it was moving sometimes in my knees,and
generally
all around my joints, in my feet.And the pain was agonising.
I have tried all the cures you can imagine.I tried ACV, lemons, drinking a lot of water, but
to no avail.
I tried water fasting, juice fasting,baking soda, again without success.
I almost gave up meat, limiting it to only once a week ,gave up alcohol completely,again
no success.
I was living on vegetables, lots and lots of fresh fruit, milk ,cheese beans and so on .My
eating habits
could not be healthier ,or so I thought.But my gout was worsening.
Then I decided to increase the amount of fruit I was consuming, thinking that if some fruit
is healthy, more
fruit will be more healthy.Some days I was eating fruit only ,others over 10 portions a day.
And alas my gout instead of improving it became chronic ,it was there all the time.
I was desperate I did not know what to do.And then one day accidentally I read an article
about fructose,
which is contained in fruit in large quantities.It said that it increases uric acid, in a matter
of minutes.
Fructose is also present in table sugar, and in HFCS, which is used in soft drinks.
I put two and two together and realised what I was doing wrong.
I stopped eating fruit and all other sugars, for a period of 3 weeks,and by magic I saw a
dramatic
improvement.Pain was gone, swelling was gone, I was fine.
I re introduced fruit again in my diet but reducing them to 1 or 2 a day, and my gout almost
disappeared.
I do eat more meat now, and occasionally have an alcoholic drink, and thank God everything
seems to be fine.
Fructose was my enemy.

[popeye53]

i have not had any further gout attacks since eliminating fructose although my uric acid dropped to 5.4 on 80mg uloric so maybe a combination of both.they say dairy is good for gout so i eat alot of organic yogurt.if its not organic it probably has fructose or cane syrup.i have read many accounts of people eliminating fructose which eliminated gout flares.