Consuming various high-purine foods in known to cause elevated uric acid and potentially bring on a gout attack. Numerous studies have noted a subtle link between diet and gout.

Reducing purine consumption may help lower uric acid and therefore improve symptoms. There are many anecdotal stories in support of this, so if your gout is bad – try it!

Comment:

Good information and nice site design. Personally, I've had gout for many years but leanred to put up with it. Day to day activities certainly make it worse for me. I suppose it’s a good excuse not to go to work sometimes – when it starts. Recently, I learned about how diet – purines – can elevate uric acid levels and cause gout, this seems to fit well with me. Like yours, there’s some great posts over at another blog, I can email you the URL if you wish; it’s not my site! Nice articles, well thought through! Mr Simmons