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Health Tips: Gout: gout, the disease of the rich

To avoid gout, avoid meat.

Gout was at one time considered the disease of the rich, when in the West only the rich ate meat.

The gout patient should avoid all purine and uric acid producing foods such as all meats, eggs, and fish. Glandular meats are especially harmful.

The one who has gout should also avoid all intoxicating liquors, tea, coffee, sugar, white flour and its products and all canned and processed foods. Spices and salts should be used as little as possible.Research has found that people who generally live longer do so partly because of good habits. Here, i provide some of the following good habits for longevity.

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