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Gout Free Holidays

With Christmas around the corner it may well be a good time to make sure that you have gout free holidays. Christmas is a magical time and even the biggest cynic or Grinch can’t help but admit there is something awesome about getting together with loved ones and friends to eat, drink and be merry. Having gout free holidays is all about being prepared and aware of what it is all that fantastic…

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Staying Positive During Gout Attacks

Staying positive during gout attacks is often not the easiest thing to do. As the uric acid crystallizes and starts to poke at your joints it’s easy for dread and fear of the pain to set in. Western medicine on the whole treats gout attacks with a variety of chemical based drugs that are often hit and miss in their effectiveness. However, eastern medicine treats diseases and medical conditions…

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A Green Shake for Gout

Drinking a green shake for gout is a great way to prevent and ease a gout attack. While not the most appetizing thing to look at, making a green shake can do wonders for your health. The key to a good green shake for gout is to make sure that you use vegetables more than fruit. When most people think of shakes and smoothies, they tend to think of fresh fruit shakes like pineapple or strawberry.…

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The Best Gout Supplements

Gout requires you to make changes to your lifestyle and diet. If you don’t the chances are high that you will get recurring gout attacks with swollen joints, shooting pain and just general agony. One of the best things you can do is begin to make changes in your diet to cut down on:

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Summer Gout Attacks - How To Avoid Them

Summer Gout Attacks – How To Avoid Them

Summer Gout

Avoiding summer gout attacks is not always easy. We are all busy people and often our hectic schedules get in the way of our own efforts to stay healthy. Not only that but the summer is a time for fun, barbeques, vacations, and perhaps a little too much good food and drink. There are pool parties, trips to the beach, vacations and all sorts of other activities that raise the…

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Did You Get Gout in 2016?

Did you get gout in 2016?

For many people that suffer from gout attacks, the idea of not having gout in 2016 may have seemed like an impossibility.

After all gout attacks occur at random or with very few signs and symptoms. This I found years ago to simply not be true, a gout attack gives clues its coming.

Gout does strike out of the blue and often at the most inconvenient time, but there are…

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The Gout Dog

Do you have a gout dog?

Sounds a bit silly doesn’t it, but if you suffer from gout attacks and high uric acid levels, perhaps a gout dog could help you. I myself have a North Korean dog breed called a Pungsan / Poongsan dog. She’s beautiful and bites chews and eats everything, but she certainly helps get me moving every day.

Gout is caused by many things such as bad diet and lack of exercise. A…

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Cooking For Gout Part 2

Cooking For Gout

In the last post on cooking for gout part 1, we discussed different ways of how to cook.

It wasn’t very complicated, but it was very important, today though in cooking for gout part 2, we are going to look at the role that salt and spices can or should play in the preparation of food.

As a gout sufferer, the majority of gout attacks are brought on due to dehydration. Your body is…

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Footwear for Gout - Get Your Gout Shoes Out!

Footwear for Gout – Get Your Gout Shoes Out!

Footwear for Gout

If you suffer from gout ideally you should be resting up until the uric acid crystals have dissolved and your swollen joint have gone back to normal. Unfortunately, most of us have jobs and lives to live. We have to go into work, however painful it may be. I mean we have bills to pay and work to do right?

So what is the best footwear for gout?

I found over the years that there…

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Cooking For Gout - Simple Guidelines

Cooking For Gout – Simple Guidelines

Cooking For Gout Part 1

For some people cooking for gout can be a troubling / difficult thing. After all there are a hell of a lot of websites out there that contradict each other about which ingredients trigger a gout attack. For some people tomatoes are their nemesis, other people get gout pain from spinach, etc. Most of all though, it is the idea of minimizing purinesand therefore reducing…

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Going Vegetarian for Gout

After a few gout attacks you may well consider going vegetarian for gout. I know I did and the results were far from great!

As a meat eater I used to read all about purines and how these should be avoided. After all it’s the purines that cause the high uric acid levels.

These then cause the gout attacks that cause the thoughts about chopping off your foot!

So to just cut…

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A Gout Action Plan

Do you have a gout action plan? I remember when I used to first get gout attacks. There seemed to be no reason or rhyme to why I was suddenly experiencing gout pain. Sometimes, yes it was easy to see why I was suffering, other times, the cause was very unclear. I have lost count of how many times a supposed ‘gout diet’ let me down. But after several attacks and a lot of swollen joints and big toe…

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Diagnosing Gout

Diagnosing gout is done by your doctor through quite slow procedures. Basically the doctor has to evaluate your symptoms and decide that it is possibly a gout attack. Once your doctor has come to their conclusion, the actual way of diagnosing gout is any of three tests.

These are:

1. Blood tests 2. Urine Tests 3. Synovial fluid tests

Getting the results from any of one gout test…

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Have A Gout Free 2016

Let’s all have a gout free 2016 – that means you!

Well, it’s a little too early to call I know, but with there being just 3 days of 2015 left I thought I’d risk it – That’s me gout free for another year!

But what about 2016? Will I have a gout free 2016 too – absolutely!

What about you? Did you have a gout free 2015? Will you have a gout free 2016?

They’re a couple of good…

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We Wish You a Gout Free Christmas...

We Wish You a Gout Free Christmas…

A gout free Christmas doesn’t have to be boring, sad and dull. If you want to survive the holiday season without going through all the pain that comes with an acute gout attack, there are some simple preventative measures you can take.

A gout free Christmas is my wish for everyone, but it doesn’t mean you should avoid the food, the fun and the family activities!

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Using Bananas For Gout

Bananas for gout are simply a must eat if you want to give yourself the best chance of beating the gout monster out.

But why is this yellow fruit such a benefit to the gout sufferer?

Bananas are naturally low in calories with the average banana coming in at somewhere around 105 – 120 calories. But it is not just the calories that we should think of when using bananas for…

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Gout How Much Water Should I Drink?

Gout – How Much Water Should I Drink?

For gout how much water you drink is extremely important. Any gout sufferer will tell you that you should drink a lot of water. But why? gout how much water

Well lets have a look at gout and exactly what it is: •Gout is an acid problem where the amount of uric acid in the blood becomes concentrated to high levels. •As this happens the uric acid begins to…

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