Gout foods to avoid
include seafood, meat, beer,
and sugar-sweetened sodas
Can diet affect gout? Yes. Gout foods to avoid have been identified by scientists who've conducted massive, exhaustive studies. If you suffer from gout, take a minute to look at the information on this page.
These recommendations come from research conducted by Dr. Choi and published in 2004 in the New England Journal of Medicine and in 2008 in the British Medical Journal. This research project involved more than 46,000 men aged 40-75 years with no history of gout. They were periodically given food consumption and health questionnaires and were followed for 12 years. During that time, 755 men developed gout.
Based on that massive study, the following foods should be avoided by individuals with gout.
Gout foods to avoid - Seafood
Consuming large quantities of seafood was one of the greatest predictors of developing gout, according to published findings. The men who ate the most seafood (fish and shellfish) were 51 percent more likely to develop gout compared to men who ate the least seafood. The study found that eating canned tuna more than once a week increased gout occurrence risk by 28 percent.
Limit meat intake
Dr. Choi's research found a link between meat intake and gout. Men who consumed the most beef, pork and lamb had a 41 percent higher incident of gout than the men who ate these foods the least often.
Avoid animal protein with high purine levels
Purines can be found in some foods. When your body processes purines, the result is uric acid. When a person's body accummulates too much uric acid, sharp crystals sometimes form and are deposited in joint fluid and lining, resulting in a gout attack. For many decades, health practitioners have known about the link between purines, and have long advocated avoiding foods high in purines. However, Choi's research project determined that purine-rich animal protein is associated with gout but vegetable protein with high levels of purine did not have an impact on developing gout.
Gout foods to avoid - Animal protein high in purines
Very high in purines (shown alphabetically)-
- Anchovies
- Brains
- Gravies
- Kidneys
- Liver
- Sardines
High and moderately high purine content (alphabetically) -
- Bacon
- Beef
- Bluefish
- Bouillon
 - Calf tongue
- Carp
- Chicken
- Chicken soup
- Codfish
- Crab
- Duck
- Goose
- Halibut
- Ham
- Lamb
- Lobster
- Mutton
- Oysters
- Perch
- Pork
- Rabbit
- Salmon
- Sheep
- Shellfish
- Snapper
- Trout
- Tuna
- Turkey
- Veal
- Venison
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Limit consumption of sugar-sweetened soda
 Dr. Choi's massive gout study found that men who drank five or six servings of sugar-sweetened soft drinks a week had a 29 percent higher chance of developing gout compared to men who consumed less than one serving of sugared soda a month. Men who drank one soda a day had a 45 percent higher chance of coming down with gout and men who consumed two of sugar-sweetened sodas a day had an 85 percent higher risk for gout. There was no connection between drinking diet soft drinks and gout.
Based on these findings, some health professionals are recommending stopping the consumption of sugar-sweetened soda, fruit juices with fructose and limiting intake of foods and beverages with high-fructose corn syrup.
Gout foods to avoid - Alcohol, especially beer
The research project with the 46,000+ men found that the likelihood of developing gout rose 30 percent when one alcoholic drink a day was consumed, as compared to drinking no alcohol at all. When two alcoholic drinks a day were consumed, the risk for gout increased to 50 percent and at three alcoholic drinks a day, the likelihood of developing gout jumped to 100 percent. 
Not all types of alcohol impact gout equally. Wine did not carry much risk for developng gout; two glasses of wine a day did not increase the risk for gout compared to drinking no wine at all. Alcohol (other than beer or wine) increased the chance for developing gout by 15 percent per daily serving.
Beer consumption was strongly linked to gout; every daily serving of beer increased the risk for gout by 49 percent.
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