"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I have to cook for a person with gout. And his favorite foods are the
>> worst
>> ones for it. Asparagus, red meat and seafood. And I was unwittingly
>> serving the wrong things. Chicken with mushroom sauce. The chicken may
>> have been okay but apparently mushrooms are not. And I've been making a
>> lot
>> of dried beans because they're cheap. Oops!
>
> What's wrong with asparagus? It's meat, eggs, and cheese
> that you've got to watch out for.
>
>> I know that most fruit and vegetables are good. Spinach is not. I know
>> that whole grains are good and that tofu might be okay. Eggs might be
>> okay.
>> But some people react to them.
>
> What's wrong with spinach? I think you're confusing gout
> with kidney stones. Gout can cause kidney stones, but
> it's a different type of stone than the ones caused by
> eating spinach.
>
> Eggs are definitely NOT okay. Tofu is bad, but not
> as bad as meat and eggs. Anything that's high in protein
> is a potential problem.
>
>> I am just kind of stumped when it comes to protein. I've been serving
>> chicken and turkey but I'm sure that will get old. I have seen mixed
>> things
>> about cheese. Does cheese bother you?
>
> Yes, cheese is no good when it comes to gout. Hard,
> fermented cheeses are worse than fatty fresh cheeses.
> Chicken and turkey, like all meats, are bad.
>
>> What can I fix? Luckily this person isn't a picky eater. Just prefers
>> the
>> foods that are the worst for gout. Exception being fruit. He is a big
>> fruit eater. Guess I need to buy more.
>
> All vegetables, fruit, and carbs are fine. The foods
> which must be restricted are meat, eggs, and cheese.
>
> Gout is caused by build-up of the waste products of
> metabolizing organic nitrogen, which comes mostly from
> protein. Normally, this is processed into urea which
> then goes out in the urine. But if the level of urea
> gets too high, it is converted into uric acid which gets
> deposited as crystals in the joints, which is gout.
>
> The best way to handle gout by far is PREVENTION. It's
> so easy to get gout and so painful to suffer through.
> Nearly all of my gout attacks were preceded by
> overindulging in meat. I remember many times thinking
> "I wonder if this will give me gout", and pretty much
> every time the answer was YES. I'm reeeaaallly careful
> to watch my meat consumption nowdays.
>
> I've tried the alleged cherry juice remedy. Didn't do
> a thing for me.


It's food high in purines that are the problem. I got gout from eating too
many tomatoes. And raw cherry juice fixed me up fast. You have to have the
raw stuff not the cherry juice beverage you find in most stores. At the
time TJs sold it but like everything else good they dropped it from the
inventory.