The cookbook contains about 100 recipes (breakfast, appetizers, beverages, main dishes, sides, sauces, desserts) and lists of foods allowed and not allowed for people with gout.

Restricted purine diet, complies with modified and restricted purine diets. Features lists of foods allowed and not allowed for gout sufferers; listing food lowest, relatively high and highest in purines. Over 100 recipes for breakfast, appetizers & beverages, dips, main dishes, soups, sides & sauces, salads, desserts.

The cookbook contains about 90 recipes low in purines and fat. It also provides lists of foods lower, relatively high and highest in purines. It explains how different aspects of the diet (high purine vegetables, meat, seafood and dairy intake) affect the risk of gout.

Included in this book are dietary guidelines, including current research on the role of diet in preventing gout, and a description of the new medications available for its treatment. The book argues that if control of the elevated concentrations of uric acid can be achieved through either diet or medication modifications, gout attacks will cease and there will be no further complications. It describes how effective prevention of gout requires sufferers to understand their condition, one that can be a result of both genetic and lifestyle factors.

This book explains the causes of gout, which include overindulgence, crash dieting and injury, and how medicines and lifestyle changes can be used to control the pain and overcome gout. Its content includes: 1. What is Gout? 2. Getting Help from Your Doctor 3. Helping Yourself 4. Eating to Combat Gout 5. Complementary Therapies.

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