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High consumption of fructose-rich beverages may raise the odds of developing gout in women.
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Vegetarian diets may confer individuals with significant protection against gout.
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The sugary beverage industry spends billions of dollars on advertisement and marketing campaigns aimed at showing us the sweet side of their products. But what these advertisements do not tell us is the bitter and unhealthy side of these drinks. Regular consumption of large quantities of sugary drinks can lead to some serious he...
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A recent study shows that men who drink soda every day are 45% more likely to suffer from gout, a painful type of arthritis. Another study published in the Journal of American Medical Association reveals that the chances of suffering from gout were two times higher in women who regularly consumed two or more cans of soda per day...
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Frequent consumers of fish, shellfish, and poultry may have a high tendency of developing gout.
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Generous intake of alcoholic drinks, especially beer and spirits, may increase the risk of developing gout in men.
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About 2 billion people in the world consume alcoholic drinks. Americans spent approximately 219.52 billion dollars on alcoholic beverages from 2006 to 2015. To the people manufacturing alcoholic beverages, these are great figures, healthful to their bottom line. While alcoholic beverage producers are smiling to the bank, the con...
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So the purines in legumes are not a problem??
Wednesday, June 28 2017 08:25
Interesting question Chris,I suspect it might because the fiber has not been removed that the purines in whole foods are beneficia... Read More
Wednesday, June 28 2017 08:43
Seems that it's a matter of purine concentration. Animal products and beer (high). Plant foods (low)http://www.webmd.com/arthritis... Read More
Wednesday, June 28 2017 09:04
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Light, moderate, and heavy drinkers of alcohol are more likely to develop gout than non-consumers of alcoholic beverages.
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”... the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families ...” English novelist George Eliot penned this line in her novel, Silas Marner, published in 1861. More recently, the United Kingdom's Daily Telegraph is reporting that gout, a painful joint condition associated most closely with Victorian era...
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Gout - the "Disease of Kings" - The incidence of gout has risen considerably in the last 40 years, affecting millions of men and women in the U.S. Gout is a type of painful inflammatory arthritis which is often referred to as the "disease of kings" because it was seen long ago in affluent classes such as...
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Are the cause gout and psuedogout the same? If no, what treatment do you recommend for pseudogout?
Tuesday, April 24 2018 17:26
No, Sara, gout is caused by a different crystal than is pseudogout, but both pseudogout as well as gout are inflammatory arthropat... Read More
Tuesday, April 24 2018 17:38
Thank you Dr. Carney. That makes a lot of sense and I'm passing it along to my friend who is suffering with this condition. I wo... Read More
Wednesday, April 25 2018 18:22
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