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Planning a Diet for Gout Patients

To plan a diet for gout patients, you need to understand why special diets are necessary. You also need to know which other health factors are important to diet.

The common view of diets is a routine of semi-starvation and discomfort in order to lose weight. The common view of diet for gout sufferers is a regimen of zero purine tolerance and discomfort.

My view is that both these approaches are wrong. A successful diet for gout patients must consider several causes of gout. It must also bring comfort, or you will never stick with it.

Causes of Gout

Diets for weight loss are important to gout sufferers. Gout and obesity have been linked for centuries. You can determine how important weight loss is to you by looking at my page on diet for gout and weight loss. You will see that, even if your average weight is OK, rapid fluctuations during the day can trigger gout attacks. A good diet for gout patients should encourage regular meals, avoiding periods of starvation or overeating.

Body mass is only one of the causes of gout, and it can exist with other factor, or be a sole cause. If other factors are causing your gout, some of these might be mitigated by changes to your diet for gout patients. For instance, impaired kidney function is thought to be helped by a low protein diet (Effects of dietary protein restriction on the progression of moderate renal disease in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study)

It is important to consult a rheumatologist to investigate the cause of gout in your particular case. Once the causes are known, you can plan a diet for gout patients that suits your particular circumstances.

General Health

A good diet for gout patients must consider all health issues. This is particularly important as many gout sufferers also endure other diseases such as high blood pressure and heart disease.

Omitting entire food groups may harm general health. A good diet for gout patients must be balanced across all food groups.

Food Types and Food Groups

This Diet Section is all about putting food together to produce meals for consumption in a way that suits gout sufferers. As well as understanding yourself and your gout causes, you need to understand how different food types and food groups affect your gout.

I’ve put background information about different types of food in, unsurprisingly, my Food Section. This currently includes purines and pH balance. I’m adding pages about antioxidants and GI foods.

Lifestyle

I do not believe that a diet for gout patients should be restricted to food matters. Your diet must consider exercise and metabolism.

One aspect of lifestyle that worries many gout sufferers is the effects of alcohol. I research this regularly, as a practical part of my gout diet, and by seeking scholarly reports. There is a lot of conflicting information, and many opposing views. Why not share your experience and discuss gout and alcohol at your gout forum.

Gout Diet 2007

I've got a new gout diet plan. I launched it in the last issue of GoutCaster, my Truly, Friendly, Gouty Newsletter, and I will summarize how it has developed in the next issue. You can subscribe to my newsletter using the form below, and you will receive a confirmation email with links to back issues.

I am publishing my progress on Gout Pal Interactive. You can read how this started at GoutPal's Gout Diet. You are welcome to join me on the plan, or just follow my gout diet progress and see how I'm doing.

My new gout diet plan will replace many of the old pages listed below. For now, you can still get some valuable information from them. In particular, my diet tips are still good. My points system might be too simplistic and I might drop it, but it still has some value, because simple is best. Food diary is linked with triggers, which I am redeveloping.

As most gout sufferers are overweight, the most important aspect of a good diet for gout patients is gradual weight loss. Failure to maintain a healthy weight with a well balanced diet will cause your body to produce more uric acid than you'll ever get from a plate of high purine food.

I can't say it any better than Tracy at Weight Loss For Life .

" If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to develop a lifestyle that supports your healthy weight. It is about progress, not perfection. "

There is so much good advice on this site, I urge you to take a look now.

The pages listed below give you plenty of help and advice and you are sure to find something that suits you. If you don't find diet information that helps you then let GoutPal know, and I will happily provide help and advice that matches your situation.

My Low Purine Diet Tips Help Reduce Gout: A low purine diet can help to reduce gout attacks. GoutPal has a few tips and a note of caution to help you manage your diet.
Planning a Diet For Gout Sufferers Made Easy: A good diet for gout sufferers can take a lot of planning if you keep referring to nutrition tables. We have developed a simple points system to make planning a diet for gout easier
Manage Gout Diet with a Food Diary: A good gout diet must account for all nutrients and calorie intake as well as purines. Using a food diary will help you manage gout diet effectively

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