| So many got attacks could be prevented or reduced | | | | or rather your fridge. |
| in severity if we started to eat the right things. | | | | Another place you will need help is in social situations, |
| If you have had gout for any amount of time you are | | | | alcohol - particularly beer - is very bad for gout |
| sure to have heard people list things you can eat and | | | | sufferers. It can be very hard when out with friends |
| things you cant eat. It seems so easy when you are | | | | who are used to seeing you have a drink or three to |
| reading the list of what not to eat on some website or | | | | say no when they offer you a beer. |
| another. | | | | Peer pressure is as real in adults as it is in children, |
| Eating the right way will help prevent gout attacks, and | | | | most of us have a friend who will try and cajole us |
| like any other diet the easiest way to make sure you | | | | into joining in the drink at any party. Make an effort to |
| stick to it is to remove temptation. If you don't have | | | | discuss your gout with your friends before you go into |
| what I like to call "gout foods" in the house then you | | | | any social situation where alcohol will be served. |
| can't eat them, it really as simple as that. | | | | You can try and manipulate the social situation so it |
| Sticking to any sort of diet , even one that will | | | | doesn't become uncomfortable, offer to drive and pick |
| dramatically reduce the pain your suffer from gout, is | | | | someone else up, they get a free ride to the party and |
| tough for the best of us. It will be made easier with the | | | | you have a good reason to refuse any offers of |
| support of your friends and family, this means you | | | | alcohol. |
| need to tell them that you are suffering with gout and | | | | It is vital that you prepare your shopping list before you |
| that changing your diet is one of the main ways you | | | | go of to do your weekly shopping. It is also important |
| can help relieve the pain you are having. | | | | that you allow yourself enough time (especially on your |
| You must have the support of everyone in your | | | | first few shopping trips for gout safe food) to actually |
| household so they don't start bringing things home that | | | | look at what is in each food or drink item you buy. |
| will tempt you into straying from your diet to prevent | | | | Fructose is just one item that sounds healthy, but has |
| gout attacks. It is hard enough changing your eating | | | | in recent studies been associated with uric acid build up |
| habits without people bring temptation into your house, | | | | and therefore gout pain. |