Gout is one form of arthritis which mainly affects due to the diet.
You will be affected with gout when your body consists of high levels of uric acid.
Usually gout attacks only single joint suddenly and especially big toe.
In the initial stages, it will last for several days but vanish even if you will not take diet for gout or treatment.
If you are repeatedly attacked with gout, then your joints will be damaged and loss of mobility takes place. You can control gout by following diet for gout.
Diet for gout is as follows:
- Every day you have to take two or three liters of fluid which includes half amount of water.
- If you are suffering from gout, you should avoid taking alcohol. If you want to take alcohol, then you have to take only one drink that is three times in a week.
- You should maintain healthy weight as excess weight exerts more stress on joints and enhances the risk of gout.
- You should not take diet with high purine content. You can take moderate proportion of purine foods and you can take low purine foods daily.
For reducing purine content level, you have to reduce the purines in your diet, as purines in your diet increase the uric acid level in your body.
Different level of purine content foods supported by diet for gout:
Low purine foods includes breads and cereals, fruits, vegetables, vegetable soups and stocks, eggs, nuts, peanut butter, milk and milk products, sugar syrup, gelatin, soft drinks, tea and coffee, pickles, relishes, vinegar and pop corn.
If you want moderate purine foods supported by diet for gout then you can follow below diet information:
- You can eat raw oatmeal limited to two third cups.
- You can take one fourth cup of raw wheat bran and wheat germ.
- You can take half cup of asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, mushrooms and green peas.
- You can take one cup of cooked meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, meat, soups and broths.
High purine foods supported by diet for gout:
You should avoid taking sweetbreads, game meats, goose, partridge, anchovies, sardines, mackerel, herring, scallops, mussels, gravy meat extracts (oxo and bovril) and mincement which are high in purine.
Which foods are not supported by diet for gout to prevent gout?
Diet for gout will not support fasting or rapid weight loss diets as this will increase uric acid levels in the blood. You should avoid low carbohydrate diet, as diet with low carbohydrates involves high protein and fat.
You should avoid taking organic meats such as liver, brain, kidney, mackerel and sweetbreads. You should not take high protein low carb diet; if you take it then you will suffer from worse conditions of gout.
Follow the diet supported by diet for gout, which will help you in losing excess weight.
