If you are one of many people who suffer from gout, then chances are that you’ve heard people saying that the is the disease of kings and that the cause of it is too much beer and rich food. This can lead people to thinking that their kids are not at risk from gout, as I’m quite sure your kids don’t drink a lot of beer.
Gout is caused by a build up of uric acid crystals around your joints, it normally starts in your big toe and can move around your body from there. Uric acid crystals have no idea how old you are and they don’t care that you are too young to experience the horrible burning pain that goes with a gout attack.
The last twenty years or so have brought about changes in children’s habits. In general, children will not spend so much time outdoors playing sports or doing exercise. They also tend to eat more processed food and beverages. Many children are not happy to drink just water, instead they prefer sodas and flavoured drinks which tend to contain a lot of fructose.
Fructose and sodas have been shown in recent studies to increase the levels of uric acid in peoples bodies, this has led to increased incidences of gout. Gout is definitely not a disease of kings anymore, as the amount of soda and so called “health” drinks that we all consume continues to increase so will the instances of gout.
Anyone who suffers from gout can reduce the amount of attacks that they suffer relatively easily by changing their diet, the problem is that the older we get the more set we become in our eating habits and the harder it becomes to change our diet.
If you think about your children’s diet not only as far as it affects them now but also the habits that you are helping them form for the rest of their lives then you will realize that avoiding drinks or foods which are high in fructose is a good move.
We are all trying to squeeze too much work or to many chores into too short a day so often the shopping trip for food for the whole family can become a very rushed affair, add to the time constraint a child who doesn’t want to be there and one shopping trip can give you enough of a headache for a week.
Your shopping trip is the very core of gout prevention for your family, if you don’t buy foods that are high in fructose and you don’t allow foods that are high in uric acid creating chemicals into your fridge then your family won’t be able to eat them and you are taking a huge step towards preventing not just gout, but most likely diabetes and any number of other illnesses that are caused or worsened by our diet.
You need to know that gout is a problem which can affect you where you are young or old. But the original problems can start from when you are a child. There are however some very effective forms of gout treatment which can help you.
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