Mark Thorson > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> From what I know it takes months/years for the uric acid to
>> build up before an attack. Overall diet, if it has an effect,
>> make the next attack come sooner. Perhaps a large amount
>> of asparagus consumeed all season long could have an effect,
>> however that's a tricky one because gout occurs more often in
>> the early months of the year, anyway, and they don't know why.

>I think you have gout confused with kidney stones.

I'm not confusing them, but I may be working of slightly
different information than you are.

>There isn't anything you can eat that'll give you
>a kidney stone between today and the day after
>tomorrow. But if I eat a two-egg omelet and a
>nice big steak, I'll have gout tomorrow.

Right. This may depend on the particular gout scenario.

Steve