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top 5 gout triggers ? Posted: 05-19-08 01:42am
For me it's
#1 Shellfish (I NEVER NEVER eat
shellfish)
#2 Beer/wine (sober 2 years!!)
#3 all other meat (I just started eating a
small amount of meat about once a week)
#4 nuts sometimes
#5 beans pretty often
I am going to look into sleep apnea very
soon thanks to pain free
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painfree
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Posted: 05-19-08 08:29am
A recent study showed that people who
drink a lot of soda pop sweetened with
high fructose corn syrup have higher
levels of serum uric acid and more
frequent attacks of gout than those who
drink only artificially sweetened soda
pop. It's been known for forty years that
fructose can have that effect. Cane sugar
(table sugar) probably has the same effect
since its almost identical chemically to
high fructose corn syrup.
An even more recent study shows that
taking 400-500 mg a day of vitamin C
mitigates that effect of fructose. That's
probably why the effect of fructose in
fruit is much less severe - because there
is natural vitamin C in fruit. But when
the fruit is used to make fruit juice that
is shelved for a long time, the natural
vitamin C may be reduced, but the fructose
isn't.
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tommytowne
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interesting about High Fructose Corn Syrup Posted: 05-19-08 15:43pm
I drink a ton of soda at my new job and
this is a perfect reason to cut it out. Is
eating an orange in the morning as good as
taking c pills?
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painfree
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Posted: 05-20-08 08:41am
It's my impression the an orange contains
less vitamin C than 400 mg, but it
probably contains enough to protect humans
from the deleterious effects of the
fructose contained in that orange. I'm
sure that there are websites that describe
the range of vitamin C that can be found
in one orange.
