What are the best foods to eat if you're having a gout attack?

What are the best foods to eat if you're having a gout attack?

tgfann
My uncle has gout and all I know is that he can't eat seafood. Sorry, good luck.

pepper
http://www.ynhh.org/online/nutrition/advisor/index.html

Cheese souffles!

mysticduder
Drink lots of water to dilute the uric acid in your system.

william a
It would be best to take the opposite tack and find the foods to stay away from. I have gout occasionally and find the best thing to do is to drink lots of water. Apparantly food has less to do with it than you might think. Your doctor will give you a prescription if the flare up is too bad. Do a search and you will find out a lot more than I can tell you. For a start eat cherries and celery.

beauty gal
The main idea of a gout diet is to try to reduce or completely avoid food that will cause the body to produce excessive uric acid. Gout sufferers should try to prevent excessive consumption of protein and sugar which are the main producer of uric acid in the body. Other food which should be avoided in a gout diet includes processed food, fried food and hydrogenated vegetable oils. Some of these foods which a gout diet should avoid are actually "healthy food". However these "healthy food" are actually harmful to gout patients and thus should be avoided in a gout diet no matter how healthy they are. Two other major harmful elements which should be avoided completely in a gout diet are alcohol and cigarettes. It might be easy to say but could be difficult to comply. However for the sack of minimizing all the painful gout attacks, it is without doubt worth all the effort put in.

Instead of trying to memorize all the food to avoid in a gout diet, it might be easier to remember a general rule which is to avoid food that has not been processed with preservatives or additives. Eat food in it most natural form to prevent any possibility of the development of gout. This is seriously the most recommended gout diet to adopt for all gout patients as well as non gout patients as it will completely prevent the occurrence of gout.

For more gout articles and a healthy gout diet, you can refer to this site :http://gout.mygeneralknowledge.com/Articles/Gout_Diet_Tips.php

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