All these delicious high protein foods are often banned for gouties. But who is doing the banning? And do they know what they are talking about?

I’ve used this image in a number of gout diet articles where I’ve discussed the relationship of protein to gout.

Have a browse, and you’ll see that the low protein brigade are rarely right.

Photographs of MRI scans showing uric acid crystals deposited as gouty tophi growing in the spinal joints.

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A chart showing the increasing risks of early kidney disease as uric acid rises. Interestingly, risks begin to rise steeply above 5mg/dL (0.3 mmol/L) which is towards the lower end of what many labs report to be the “normal” blood uric acid range.

The chart is drawn from data in the Association between serum uric acid and early kidney damage in middle-aged and elderly. The spreadsheet generating the uric acid chart, and this GoutPal image, are published under a Creative Commons license:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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This intriguing image from Lenore M. Edman, www.evilmadscientist.com shows a ‘litmus test’ with a twist. The twist is that the acid/alkali test is done with red cabbage. To add further interest, and a touch of surrealism, the red cabbaginess comes not from cabbage, but from candy! Oh how those Canadians love to wile away the long winter nights.

Well I’ve used the image to illustrate my point in Alkaline Foods, that litmus testing has little to do with alkalizing food, and alkalizing food has little to do with gout.

Why use it then? Because I like it.

You can see the original image from Lenora (The Evil Mad Scientist) at Flickr. If you reuse any part of this image, you must attribute the original work to Lenora under the Creative Commons Attribution License. No need to mention me, as I’ve done very little except add some tantalizing text.

What you must do now, is visit the original Kithchen Science picture, then follow the link to the explanatory Litmus Candy article.

Chart of the number of months taken for uric acid crystals to dissolve after starting urate lowering treatment. 18 gout sufferers took between 3 and 33 months for all uric acid crystals to disappear from synovial fluid samples.

Used to illustrate the article describing the time taken for uric acid crystals to dissolve.

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Not gout related. I created this image for a joke (almost) response to a gout forum discussion about diet. It is inspired by Frank Skinner’s joke (almost) about the baby food diet fad and Reese Witherspoon.

For the lead image on my Home Remedies For Gout page, I couldn’t resist this photo from flickr.

Big time water drinker from Drew Stephens says it all – Drink Water – Big Time. OK, 5 gallons a time might be just a little too much, but if you have gout, you need to get the water habit.

Drew’s photograph is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, as is my derived version.