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Gout Diet

  1. 1. GOUT DIET 10 STEPS TO AN OPTIMIZED GOUT DIET
  2. 2. #1 Limit meat, poultry, fish and nuts to 10% of your daily protein calories. Remember to strictly avoid seafood, you can read more about it here. Make sure it is clean meat with the fat taken off, basically lean and preferably cooked over fire or on the BBQ where any fat is burnt off.
  3. 3. Eat red meat not more than twice a week if you suffer from gout. Beef, lamb, goat, rabbit and deer are good meats to eat and meat has generally 70% to 75% of its’ calories as fat.
  4. 4. Fat and blood from meat are concentrates that the body cannot tolerate in great quantities. In digesting them, we produce so many waste products that even our kidneys which have excess capacity cannot handle them properly and that results in diseases like gout.
  5. 5. Pork should be avoided at all costs since the animal is a scavenger and its’ role in nature is to eat garbage, so avoid bacon, ham, sausages, pork chops which can wreak havoc to your health.
  6. 6. Limit your intake of red meat, fish is your best source of protein, it’s low on fat and it has plenty of Omega 3 oils which helps drive up our HDL (good cholesterol) and drives down LDL (bad cholesterol). Try and eat fish 2-3 times a week and yes I know there is some purines in there but it’s only moderate and more importantly you need fish in your diet. Only if you have severe gout and extremely high uric acid, you should then cut it out of your diet.
  7. 7. You can eat chicken, preferably chicken breast which has 15% of its’ calories as fat. Do not touch organ meat whatsoever, purines are the highest and should be avoided besides they are very unhealthy for you.
  8. 8. #2 Limit your cheese, milk, butter, eggs, yogurt, basically your fat intake to 10% of your daily fat calories. Saturated fat lowers the body’s ability to eliminate uric acid and prevents obesity which is linked to gout.
  9. 9. #3 Limit sugar to 25 mg a day and avoid foods sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.
  10. 10. #4 Drink plenty of water.
  11. 11. #5 Limit your alcohol intake
  12. 12. #6 Also limit animal-based foods such as gravy, bouillon and chicken soup, even Jello.
  13. 13. #7 Choose 80% of your daily calories as complex carbohydrates in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, whole wheat pasta, rice and avoid simple or refined carbohydrates like white bread, cakes and candy. Essentially, a low purine diet is very important for the gout sufferer, the highest purine foods are obviously the meats.
  14. 14. Carbohydrates are pure energy! Carbohydrates are also good for your stool and speeds up the flow through your bowel by cutting the time it transits the bowel from about 90 hours to about 33 hours. Your kidneys take less of a beating when processing carbs compared to meats.
  15. 15. #8 Avoid eating fried and processed food not only will it increase your uric acid levels but it will also increase the free radicals which causes other diseases too.
  16. 16. #9 Remember to eat everything fresh and organic, preferably locally grown in your community.
  17. 17. #10 Substitute olive oil for other oils in your cooking, baking and salad dressings; add it over pasta or a baked potato because it is the only exception to fats and it lowers your uric acid. If heated, it loses its healthy benefits and produces free radicals that cause us to develop diseases like cancer. This oil lowers blood pressure and blood cholesterol, it raises the HDL or good cholesterol, does the opposite of other oils and reduces our blood sugar, so naturally it is good for diabetics and it prevents heart disease and even gout. Make sure it is cold pressed extra virgin olive oil.
  18. 18. It is recommended to follow the “The 80-10-10 Diet” which consists of 80% of your daily calories to be clean carbohydrates, 10% consisting of fat and the remaining 10% of your calories should be protein. FINAL THOUGHTS
  19. 19. It takes more water to separate the waste products from the protein (meats) but your principal food should be carbs like veggies, fruits, grains, whole grain breads, beans, corn, whole wheat pasta and rice.
  20. 20. Anything you can grow in your garden is good for you and you can eat all that you want from it.
  21. 21. FIND OUT MORE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE IDEAL DIET FOR GOUT: CLICK HERE

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