People with high urate levels have an elevated chance of developing gout. But modifying four key risk factors may help halt the painful and incurable disease’s onset, investigators say. In a study ...

A gout diet involves consuming foods that are low in purines, chemicals that break down to form uric acid, which is associated with gout attacks. Low-fat dairy, coffee, and citrus fruit are among the ...

For many people, managing gout is more than just a physical struggle – it's a daily dietary puzzle. And the concept of a gout diet is key to helping ward off joint pain and swelling that often ...

Warding off the joint pain of gout may be as easy as eating right, a new study suggests. Gout, a joint disease that causes extreme pain and swelling, is caused by excess uric acid in the blood. It’s ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A healthy plant-based diet, including foods like whole grains, dairy, tea and coffee, was associated with a ...

A Mediterranean-inspired plant-based diet improved self-reported measures of gout as well as uric acid levels, a pilot study has found. Some foods are considered to be proinflammatory and generally ...

It has been believed for centuries that a diet rich in red meat and wine is associated with gout. This painful joint disease leads to extremely painful swelling of the joints (mainly of the great toes ...

Despite accumulating evidence that gout isn’t all about diet, the condition retains its reputation as the “rich man’s disease”—or the disease that afflicts those who eat richly, regardless of their ...

Until the 1980s, diet — particularly spicy foods — was considered a key cause of stomach ulcers (along with stress). Then we found out that these painful sores on the lining of the stomach were ...