Foods To Avoid With Gout

You may be surprised to learn how many health problems, such as gout, are caused from under-nutrition.

The secret to avoiding gout and other diseases is through selecting the right foods and avoiding the wrong “gout causing” foods.

Like the saying goes, “variety is the spice of life.” Avoiding the few foods that cause gout pain will still leave you a cornucopia of other delicious foods to enjoy.

Truth is what most people call eating a “balanced diet” is actually one of the fastest ways to cause a nutritional imbalance that could lead to a gout attack, simply because the Standard American Diet (SADS) is a very narrow way of eating.

As you already know, you can get gout, or trigger gout attacks by simply eating gouts foods. These are foods that contain one or more of three ingredients that trigger gouty pain, arthritis and inflammation:

1. Acid
2. Sugar
3. Purines

If you can’t avoid all gout foods, you can still reduce the risk of gout pain and gout attack by eating plenty of other non-gout causing foods and staying well hydrated with the “right type” of drinking water to help flush out these gout causing ingredients.

With today’s fast-food lifestyle and considering how many people eat out or count on frozen and prepared foods, it’s important to also consider using whole food sourced supplements to help support a wide variety of vital nutrients and minerals.

Your digestive system isn’t designed like a carnivore (meat eater). Your digestive system is shorter compared to a meat-eating animal like a cat or a dog.

Meat eaters have two things you don’t have:

1. A long digestive system
2. Stronger digestive acids

That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy meat in your diet any more than it means a dog or cat can’t eat plants.

However, if you suffer from gout you do need to avoid eating certain kinds of gout causing foods like meats and pork, which is high in gout crystal forming purines and is also very acidic. To add insult to injury pork is often candied, which means it contains added sugars.

Natural unrefined sources of carbohydrates like raw cane sugar, honey and whole fruits aren’t nearly as bad as refined sugar. Refined sugar in large quantities is poisonous. Sugar triggers all kinds of inflammation responses including gout, weight gain and loss of bone density because it makes your body tissues acidic.

By avoiding foods that trigger gout pain and inflammation, you’ll discover foods that can actually reverse and even cure gout pain and inflammation — by simply making your body tissue more alkaline.

You were born to heal,

Todd M. Faassé

Health Advocate