What is the best diet for gout?

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Gout

Q. What is the best diet for gout?

A. Gout is due to an accumulation of uric acid in the body. The diet best adapted for persons suffering from gout is such a diet as will enable them to eliminate uric acid from the sys­tem. Since uric acid is a result of meat eating, meat should, of course, be discarded.

Doctor Hinhede, an eminent Scandinavian physician who has given much attention to the study of diet, and who has, for many years, ad­vocated a low-protein and non-flesh dietary, has recently published the results of extended ex­periments with various exclusive diets, especially in relation to uric acid, in which he found that when the diet consisted of potatoes only the urine was but slightly acid and contained no uric acid. He finally discovered that the urine from a potato diet was capable of dissolving from one-half dram to a dram of uric acid daily. This was found to be true, also, when strawberries or milk, or both, were taken with the potatoes. A diet consisting largely of apples or tomatoes produced similar results.

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