Drink Coffee -
It May Help Your Gout
By Maggie Z. Mathews
You may yourself suffer gout or have a family
member or friend who suffers this deadly affliction. If you have ever had
gout you would well remember your gout attack.
Gout is excruciatingly painful. The sufferer suffers great pain and is often
unable to walk on their extremities. Often the poor gout victim has to crawl
on their hands on knees on the floor just to get around.
The person who suffers from gout is often told to change their eating and
drinking habits. Eat less red meat, no organ meats, no beer or red wine,
lose weight, no shrimp. Liver, herring, salami or corned beef.
But did you know that being a heavy
coffee drinker can also help, not hinder your attacks from gout and help you
to get over your painful gout attack? Drinking the beverage you like in the
morning – coffee may well help your painful gout. If you drink a lot of
coffee you are almost half as likely not to suffer from painful gout
attacks.
Coffee may help to keep you alert, increase your thinking performance, give
you insomnia and agitation, let you enjoy
some socialization with co workers, friends and family at that local "Tim
Horton's" Coffee Donut Shop as well with your
colleagues and coworkers at the "coffee break" and help your gout.
Gout, as you know, is a most painful condition which is more than common.
Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis which can occur in any joint
in the body, but most commonly in the large joint of the big toe.
It has been recently found that drinking
coffee has been shown to be beneficial in the prevention and treatment of
gout. So if you suffer from gout and are a heavy coffee drinker – keep
drinking that coffee and enjoy it.
Gout affects about 10% of men over the age of
50 and 10% of the women over 60. In a large 12 year study of nearly 46,000
health care professionals ( such as surgeons , doctors , nurses and
pharmacists that were over the age of 40) it was found that the risk of gout
was almost 60% lower for men who drank 6 cups of coffee a day compared to
men who drank no coffee at all. Similarly for men who drank 5 cups of coffee
a day the risk was reduced by almost 40%.
Interestingly the similar popular beverage tea did not have any effect in
reducing gout. Decaffeinated coffee was helpful in reducing gout but not as
much as the real high-test power regular non decaffeinated coffee.
Coffee is not only an enjoyable, tasty social beverage. It can also be most
helpful with your health and in helping your gout condition and bouts
of attack of painful gout.
About The Author: Maggie Z. Mathews
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