Foods to eat to help gout

[gracei]

The best diet for gout patients is 80 percent raw food or if possible organic food. These include:
Foods consist of complex carbohydrates
(like potatoes, rice, whole cereal products, pasta, etc.), fresh fruits, raw vegetables, soy and low-fat dairy products (such as skim-milk and light yogurt) are known to prevent the occurrence of episodic symptoms and to speed up the amelioration of already existent gout attacks. Low-fat dairy products can normalize serum uric acid concentration and thus they are recommended to all people affected by gout.
Increasing your intake of vegetables and fruits will also help in preventing further gout attacks.
Foods like chicken meat and grains are some of the well tolerated diet among gout patients.
Drink plenty of water to help the body flush out the excess of uric acid. It is strongly recommended to drink at least 2 liters of water a day.

*Quoted from my friend.

[fit foot]

I've mentioned before but cherry juice/capsules are worth a try, natural and good for you anyway. It can help with balancing acidity in the body apparently.

[fit foot]

Cherry Pie anyone? ;)

[gracei]

what's good in your cherry pie fit foot?

[gracei]

I am super duper like with your cherry pie.. can you share that to me.. or just send me message about your pie.

[danny604]

I'm so excited to share this with everyone!!!

Please try immediately and let me know. To recap...during the holiday season, I overindulged a fair bit, gained some weight, and felt the onset of a gout attack. My foot and ankle were starting to swell and noticablely every step hurt.

Now most of you will know, it only gets competely worse from there....
This happened to me on the eve of a trip to an all inclusive resort in Mexico! All you can eat or drink!!!! I was terrified!!!!!!

Ok here's what happend, I found at the buffet, salad bar, that there was always tonnes of red beets - shredded, cubed.

I ate a normal amount of other foods, meat, dairy, seafood, dessert but I always had a mountain of beets - the equivalent of 1-2 large beets per meal. I also had beet and spinach smoothies and diced beet and pineapple. In 2 days, my urine had a slight red tinge to it...and my gout pain had vanished and reversed itself! Where I was barely able to walk, I was jogging later that evening!!!!

I encourage you all to gorge on BOILED RED BEETS. I am a long time gout sufferer. I tried a lot of BS cures: baking soda, apple cider vinegar, strawberries, cherries......TRUST ME...this worked for me!!!

[fit foot]

I'll certainly try red beets, my gout came back again over Xmas and I managed to just about catch it from getting too bad with three days of ibuprofen.

[podagra]

Low fat dairy products (especially yogurt and milk) and vegetables provide magnesium and alkalinize blood (acidic blood causes uric acid precipitation). Dairy products are an excellent source of protein that is purine free. Fruits also alkalinize blood, but some gout patients tend to develop attacks with fructose, so low fructose fruits such as apples (they also help to keep blood glucose low), tart cherries, strawberries, blueberries, limes, papaya, guavas, pineaaple, etc, are best.

Oatmeal reduces bad cholesterol (LDL) and is especially beneficial and tasty if prepared with apples, skim milk, lots of cinnamon, whole flax seed and splenda. Cholesterol plays an important role in gout and cardiovascular disease.

Red beets, zucchini, broccoli, green beans, celery, asparagus, artichokes, olives, etc, are especially good for people with gout.

Although most doctors claim that eggs should be avoided because of cholesterol, most of the cholesterol in our blood does not come from food but is made from hydrocarbons in our liver (calves fed only on grass, which has no cholesterol make plenty of fat and cholesterol from the carbohydrates in the cellulose) in their liver. Accordingly, I strongly recommend an egg per day for people with gout, ideally hard boiled with some chipotle sauce added for great taste.

Copper deficiency plays a major role in gout and is caused by declining testosterone levels with age in men and plummetting estrogen levels in menopause. 2 mg/d Cu from GNC. foods rich in Cu that are especially good for gout are pineapples, fishes with white flesh, sugarfree chocolate made with real cocoa, etc,

Excess iron (ferritin much greater than 55) and molybdenum play a major role in gout. So most foods with low or unavailable iron (like spinach, whose iron is very poorly absorbed, even though some doctors still recommend them to people with low iron) are good for people with gout). Green or black tea inhibit iron absorption and containg catechins that fight inflammation. Gouty people are told not to eat beef. But donating blood eliminates the iron contained in dozens of steaks, so if you donate blood until ferrin drops slightly below 55 (and is then kept between 30 nd 55), take the 2 mg copper per day and eat plenty of dairy, vegetables and fruits, you will be able to eat moderate amounts of beef and even drink a glass of red wine or beer without experiencing a gout attack.

[damon669]

I'm so excited to share this with everyone!!!

Please try immediately and let me know. To recap...during the holiday season, I overindulged a fair bit, gained some weight, and felt the onset of a gout attack. My foot and ankle were starting to swell and noticablely every step hurt.

Now most of you will know, it only gets competely worse from there....
This happened to me on the eve of a trip to an all inclusive resort in Mexico! All you can eat or drink!!!! I was terrified!!!!!!

Ok here's what happend, I found at the buffet, salad bar, that there was always tonnes of red beets - shredded, cubed.

I ate a normal amount of other foods, meat, dairy, seafood, dessert but I always had a mountain of beets - the equivalent of 1-2 large beets per meal. I also had beet and spinach smoothies and diced beet and pineapple. In 2 days, my urine had a slight red tinge to it...and my gout pain had vanished and reversed itself! Where I was barely able to walk, I was jogging later that evening!!!!

I encourage you all to gorge on BOILED RED BEETS. I am a long time gout sufferer. I tried a lot of BS cures: baking soda, apple cider vinegar, strawberries, cherries......TRUST ME...this worked for me!!!

Is this what we call beetroot in the UK?

[podagra]

Yes, it is.
They are an oustanding food, like broccoli, etc, and I strongly recommend them to most people. However, everything and I mean everything is harmful in excess, even water, cherries, apple cider vinegar, vitamin C, sodium bicarbonate and other gout remedies. If you eat a lot of beets every day of your life you will eventually develop goiter, bile and liver problems, etc, and you wil eventually get bored of the taste and you will necessarily eat less of other excellent vegetables. It makes a lot more sense to eliminate through blood donation the iron and molybdenum that you accumulated during the decades that preceded gout and to take the suggested daily allowance of copper, thus not only avoiding gout, but the oxidative damage, homocysteine, acrolein, etc, that result from very high (Fe+Mo)/Cu.

[damon669]

'blood donation'

what do you mean by this?

[podagra]

You go to donate blood to a blood bank, hospital, red cross, etc, They check your body temperature (to make sure you don't have a fever), blood pressure and your blood to make sure that you have enough hemoglobin, red cells, etc, and to see if you don't have HIV, hepatitis B, etc, and then they take a pint of flood, which they use for people who need a transfusion. The higher your ferritin, the more the excess iron and the more times you'll need to donate to acheive ideal ferritin just below 55.
In the US you can donate at any age, unfortunately, in Mexico only up to age 65, in Britain I don't know.
Although menstruation women should not donate, because they often have ferritin below 30, they are often allowed to donate because of the desperate need for blood. In contrast, most middle aged with a ferritin of 200 or more never donate.