"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>
> "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.

We did get him raw cherry juice the last time this happened but he refused
to drink it. I am going to buy more cherries today while I can still get
them.

Thanks!