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Q: Gout Diet
asked by: EhealthJake on January 19th, 2005
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Hi everyone. I'm fed up of reading what you can't eat with gout. What foods can I eat in confidence?
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JYY2
replied on January 22nd, 2005
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Re: Gout Diet
In my opinion you can eat anything. Modern medical & dietary advice no longer insist on strict low purine diet for gout patients, because:
1) strict low purine diet can lower the blood uric acid level by only about 1 mg/dl, whereas uric acid lowing drugs can lower it by 2.5~3 mg/dl.
2) once you have gout, it becomes questionable how useful can the lowering of 1 mg/dl of uric acid in the blood be in preventing gout attacks.
3) 80~98% of people who have high blood uric acid level (>7mg/dl) do not have gout in their life time.

To me, overemphasis on low purine diet is detrimental to prevention and treatment of gout because:
1) it detracts gout patients from paying attention to other more useful things they can do for gout. .
2) strict low purine diet often causes mental stress on gout patients. It is well known that mental stress is a strong gout trigger.

A more balanced approach to prevention and treatment of gout can be found in section 3 of http://www.Icuredmygout.Org .
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