Less Fruit In My Diet - Improved My Gout

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Less Fruit In My Diet - Improved My Gout

by Donis
(Cyprus)

I have had gout for years, and tried just about everything without success.I reduced meat to, minimum once a week, stopped alcohol altogether.I was having LOTS of fruit and vegetables and my gout was worsening. Finally I have read something about excessive fructose increasing uric acid. I experimented reducing my fruit intake to 2 a day, and bingo within days I saw a dramatic improvement

Donis from Cyprus

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Fructose In Fruit, Will It Worsen Your Gout?
by: Your Herbalist

My Dear Cypriot Friend,

Thank you for your contribution!
You are raising an interesting question with regards to gout and diet.

There is some research, which suggests that fructose, a simple sugar found in many fruits, MAY be linked to the risk of gout indeed.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/bmj.39449.819271.BEv1

These fruits include apples and oranges, that are very fructose rich. Similarly: apple juice and particularly orange juice may not be desired items in the menu.
Orange juice is acidic too, and what you really want is alkaline foods.

I firmly believe that fruits rich in bioflavonoids are absolutely necessary to have.
Are having them? You say you are eating 2 fruit servings per day now. What are they, can you share?
What I am eating is mostly berries (but also occasional apple or an orange.

My biggest friend is Thai-Go (a.k.a. Zambroza), a very unique blend of fruits that helped my gout.

Super healthy drink.
And speaking of drinks...
Gout sufferers should really avoid one major source of fructose: the soft drinks.
Sweetened soft drinks are sweet... but dangerous.

All the best
Your Herbalist.

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Less Fruit In My Diet Improved My Gout
by: Donis

Thanks for your comments.

The only fruit I can safely take is cherries,in fact I will be lost about how to replace them when they go out of season.

I will experiment with various fruits, but I will definitely not have orange juice.

It seems to be the main culprit.
Donis

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More About Gout And Fructose
by: Your Herbalist

Well, I dug a little more and I found this:

Commercially prepared fruit juices, most especially the orange juice, according to Dr Mercola "contribute to the development of gout by increasing the levels of uric acid in your body. In one study, published last year, women who drank 12 ounces or more of orange juice a day doubled their risk of gout, and those who drank just six ounces of juice per day still increased their risk by 41 percent. A similar study on men was published in 2008. In that study, men who drank two or more sugary soft drinks a day had an 85 percent higher risk of gout than those who drank less than one a month. Fruit juice and fructose-rich fruits such as oranges and apples also increased the risk."

But you know what?
Watermelon has twice the amount of fructose (compared to oranges)!
Pears, raisins, mango, dried apricots and dried figs are even worse.

Surprise: sweet cherries have as much as 3.8 grams of fructose per serving (10 cherries).

I am wondering what is your experience with various fruits?

If cherries are good, as you're saying, then: lemons, lime, cranberries, passion fruit, fresh apricot, cantaloupe, raspberries, clementine, kiwi, blackberries, all contain LESS fructose than cherries!

Strawberries have approx. the same fructose amount as cherries.

Any comments?

Your Herbalist

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Fruit and Gout
by: Donis Fylaktou

Hi
Now that the cherry season is over, I am having seedless grapes every day, with no problem.

In my opinion though, what is important is not what fruit you are having. It is far more important to go for 2 to 3 weeks on a fruit and all sugars free diet to give your system a boost.

If you are interested this is how I dealt with the problem.

Here is my story.

It was the middle of the night. I opened my eyes and was awakened by earth shattering pain.

My big toe was throbbing. In fact it felt like a towering inferno.

I turned on the light and was startled to see that my great toe was 3 times its normal size. It was bright red and red hot, just like a firecracker and the pain was the most severe that I?ve ever experienced by far.

The suffering that I had to endure was almost unbelievable.

That was over ten years ago. At the beginning I was having attacks every 6 months. Then gradually I was getting them every 3 months, then every month and eventually every week.

It started at my big toe and then it was moving sometimes in my knees,and generally all around my joints, in my feet. And the pain was agonizing.

I have tried all the cures you can imagine.I tried ACV, lemons, drinking a lot of water, but to no avail.

I tried water fasting, juice fasting,baking soda, again without success.

I almost gave up meat, limiting it to only once a week ,gave up alcohol completely,again no success.
I was living on vegetables, lots and lots of fresh fruit, milk ,cheese beans and so on. My eating habits could not be healthier,or so I thought.But my gout was worsening.
Then I decided to increase the amount of fruit I was consuming, thinking that if some fruit is healthy, more fruit will be more healthy. Some days I was eating fruit only, others over 10 portions a day.

And alas my gout instead of improving it became chronic ,it was there all the time.
I was desperate I did not know what to do.

And then one day accidentally I read an article about fructose,which is contained in fruit in large quantities.It said that it increases uric acid, in a matter of minutes.

Fructose is also present in table sugar, and in HFCS, which is used in soft drinks.
I put two and two together and realized what I was doing wrong.

I stopped eating fruit and all other sugars, for a period of 3 weeks, and by magic I saw a dramatic
improvement. Pain was gone, swelling was gone, I was fine.

I re-introduced fruit again in my diet but reducing them to 1 or 2 a day, and my gout almost disappeared.

I do eat more meat now, and occasionally have an alcoholic drink, and thank God everything seems to be fine.

Fructose was my enemy.

Donis

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