It’s obvious from the many clinical studies that the importance of diet in gout maintenance cannot be overstated!

Whether diet can directly cause gout or not is still controversial, as there are possibly numerous factors involved, but diet can and does play a role in gout attacks, including aggravating and accelerating disease expression.

So is it possible to design a gout diet that accommodates your personal tastes while reducing the risk of painful gout attacks? I believe so.

First I would recommend reading the gout-diet factsheet from the UK Gout Society. Then sit down with a cup of tea or coffee and spend 30 minutes or so working out a daily diet plan that accommodates your personal tastes while reducing certain foods and food-type know to aggravate the condition. For example, avoiding foods very high in purines and limiting or dramatically reducing beer/lager consumption are the two main factors when considering your gout diet.

If you do include ‘high-risk’ foods in your anti-gout diet-plan, try to ensure they are consumed in small quantities, thus reducing the threat of irritating your gout.

Design a simple diet-plan like the following: