Gout and Cherries                                          Back to Healthful Hints

The sufferer usually experiences gout as sharp pains in the joint, commonly the joint of the big toe or the knees or elsewhere.  Gout is caused by the precipitation of uric acid crystals in and around the joints.  Although uric acid formation is encouraged by foods containing substances known as purines, the problem with most gout patients is not that they are eating very rich foods, but that their Liver is metabolizing purines into uric acid too aggressively. Therefore, elimination from the diet of high purine foods such as meats, bouillon, organ meats, gravies, yeast, anchovies, and sardines may offer some relief, but it will not control a severe case of gout.

 

There is an alternative that involves eating cherries.  Sweet or sour, fresh, frozen, or canned cherries are sufficient.  The patient should eat a minimum of eight cherries every day and with time should notice a reduction in the flare-ups of gout.

 

 

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