"Which" Gout Foods,
"How Much" And "When"
Most information about gout foods is all about trying to lower uric acid by avoiding certain foods like shellfish, sweetbreads (lol!), beer and asparagus. This isn't a bad idea but it's only one small part of the bigger picture. Definitely follow your doctor's orders but something you might try "in addition" to what your eating (and the meds they have you on?), start putting more attention on the amount that you eat and how much time goes by between feedings.
There is a size-able list of gout medications for gout symptoms and we will get to that later. But instead of making more money for the pharmaceutical companies, let's figure out how to solve that gout problem at a deeper level . . . naturally. It's almost the same thing that happens to Diabetics. Your body needs to maintain it's chemistry to work properly. It also needs to be mentioned that it's not only foods but fluids as well. Do you drink a healthy amount of good, clean water on a consistent basis?
We could wander down the same road as all the other websites on gout you've been to and talk all about all the foods you should eat and all the one's you shouldn't. But we're not going to do that! There's plenty of good info about the different food groups to pay attention to on the Antioxidants page and some specifics about which foods to key into on the page on Inflammation.
Beyond that, there are many sources of info on how to eat healthy but a particularly good one is natural-health-guide.com. Laurel does a fantastic job of making sense of how to make eating what's good for you a special experience for your taste buds by following
healthy eating guidelines.
Be sure to take in her page on Portion Distortion, it helps to bring home a critical point about how the right foods are good-for-you gout foods and how to stay gout-free.
In this exploration of gout foods,  we start to move in the direction of "lifestyle", but there is another page on that. You may have to muster up more discipline to eat the same amount (of good food) and at about the same time of day. Let's keep it simple.
Breakfast: Is it bacon, eggs and hash-browns for you? Great. What time? 7:30? Perfect. Just try to make it the same "volume" of foods no matter how it varies and at about the "same time" every morning. It could be fruit and yogurt, smoothies, oatmeal or cereal . . . just the same amount every morning . . . at about the same time. What not to do is eat a big breakfast one morning, starve yourself until 2:00pm, throw down some quick junk food, then gorge yourself on the combination plate at Fiesta Mexicana with a margarita and a couple of beers. OR . . . . . . no breakfast, huge lunch, late dinner. OR . . . . . . nothing all day, HUGE dinner. OR . . . I think you get the picture . . . Follow the same guidelines for Lunch and Dinner: relatively the same amount at relatively the same time. Don't starve yourself and don't get dehydrated. Oh yeah . . . don't eat CRAP! Feed yourself high quality, (high antioxidant?) super-nutritious food. There's a Whole Wide World of really good-for-you "gout foods" . . . so remember . . . you're worth it!
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