Why You Should Go On A Diet

When you have your first gout attack, you probably want to find a way to escape the pain for good. There is such a way, but it requires quite a lot of work and does not give results overnight. And it requires you to change your lifestyle in more ways than one.

Too much sugar can give you gout too, Spiderman!

To understand what, let us just review what gives you gout. It is very simple really: When you have more uric acid in your blood than can be execreted through your urine, it gets sequestered in your cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue. It is stored as crystals which look like very sharp needles, but they are the same size as a virus - so when those crystals are released from the cartilage, either by a mechanical event (like a bump), a fall or raise in uric acid levels (from dehydration or a purine- and sigar-rich meal), or changes in blood pressure (for instance from stress); then they will be identified by the immune system as a foreign body and will trigger an inflammation, so that the expanded blood vessels can provide white blood corpuscules to contain the foreign body. If the uric acid level falls, the crystals should be released into the blood and dissolved, so the uric acid can be execreted if the level of the uric acid is below 6.8 mg/dL.

HOW TO DECREASE URIC ACID

The reason you have so much uric acid in your blood is that your liver is producing uric acid as a byproduct of creating the enzymes it uses to make glucose from sugar. Glucose is the fuel for the cells in the body, and also the culprit in diabetes - because your body has lost control over the glucose production. When you are hyperuricemic, which means you have too much uric acid in your blood, that is because your liver does not stop work to create glucose, even though there are hormones in the blood which normally means "stop". Glucose is made from sugar, so sugars and purines are the two culprits that enable your liver to produce the excess uric acid. If you want to control your hyperuricemia through your diet, it means excluding sugar and purines from your diet. Not just sugar, but anything which can be turned into sugar, including starch.

FOOD WITH STARCH, SUGAR, AND PURINES

The foods that make your body produce extra uric acid are rich in sugar, starch, and purines. Foods with sugar and starch are easy to identify - anything sweet or made from grains. High-purine foods are harder, because you are notnused to look for them. But purines are basically recycled animal genetic material, so avoiding any meat or other animal product and seafood will help you avoid them.
This makes you a vegetarian, but it may not be such a bad thing. For one, it is more environmentally friendly to eat soy beans yourself, instead of feeding them to cattle and then eating the cattle.

THE SIMPLE GOUTBEATER DIET

The diet you should follow to beat your gout by reducing your uric acid production is a very simple diet: No animal or seafood products except eggs, cheese, and dairy. No added sugar (especially HFCS) in anything. No alcohol. If you also eat more than 50% vegetables, you have to have serious medical problems not to lose weight and not have any gout attacks.
​Diets will also help with arthritis and rheumatism problems, even if those are caused by different inflammatory processes than those which cause gout. And by going on a diet you can cure hyperuricemia, the condition which underlies gout. It is in turn caused by your metabolic syndrome, which causes your liver to go on overdrive so that it can not stop producing glucose - and the uric acid which is a byproduct of the glucose production.

TEN TO THIRTY PERCENT

When your body produces glucose, it uses enzymes made from purines. The amount of purines you get through the diet is normally between ten and thirty percent, depending on what you eat. It can even be zero if you follow my diet. But the rest comes from your own body, and you can mot change that with any diet. And if you are hyperuricemic, the glucose production does not stop and the enzyme production uses up all available purines.
After cutting purine intake, the easiest thing you can do is to make it easier for your body to flush out the uric acid. Making your urine more alkaline (something you do through eating the right things, which includes most vegetables) makes uric acid more soluble in urine, and drinking milk lowers the uric acid by binding to it and flushing it out.

Vegetables will help both lowering uric acid intake and make it easier to flush out uric acid, apart from helping you to lose weight.

DIETS HELP LOSING WEIGHT

A diet is also a key component in losing weight, which is extremely helpful if you try to manage gout. Weight loss may be counterintuitive as a remedy for a condition that gets worse when you consume high- protein materials composed of dead animal cells, but losing weight is a great way of managing gout.
​* Why does this diet lower the purine intake?
​* What should you absolutely not eat?
​* What foods are good for you?
* What to do when you diet gets boring?
* Are there some tips to follow regarding diet?

Read more here:
* Why you should go on a diet - and how.
​* The forbidden gout foods
​* How to make your new diet taste better than the old one.
* Great foods for gout beaters
​* What to do when the diet gets boring

And a few links to warn about potential dangers:
* The danger of being fat
​* Your heart and gout
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