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> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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>> Julie Bove > wrote:
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>> : "Jacquie" > wrote in message
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>> : > "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> : >> Looks like husband will start the new job on the 24th of next month
>> so we
>> : >> still have time to feed him some of this stuff. We had a box of
>> beef
>> : >> tamales that was in the garage freezer that needs to be eaten up by
>> Nov.
>> : >> I brought it in and was sad to see that they contain chicken broth.
>> So I
>> : >> can't eat them. I really wanted them! So Angela will be having
>> those
>> : >> for dinner. She is not pleased. Although she likes tamales she
>> doesn't
>> : >> much like beef. Husband loves beef but was in the hospital today
>> and
>> : >> long story short it is gout which we all sort of knew. And beef is
>> one
>> : >> of the worst things for gout. So he will be having some little
>> chicken
>> : >> tacos that we got from Target.
>> : >>
>> : > My husband was diagnosed with gout years ago, they gave his a
>> med(don't
>> : > remember the name) and he hasn't had any problems since then. We do
>> eat
>> : > beef in this house but not often, once and awhile we'll have
>> steak...maybe
>> : > once a month. I will make him a meatloaf every two months. We eat
>> chicken,
>> : > pork..sometimes ham, turkey, and fish. We haven't had any hamburgers
>> : > since the big gall bladder attack, and the removal. We had pizza the
>> other
>> : > night with no affects, ate one slice and topping of one slice with
>> salad.
>>
>> : According to what I read online he has to avoid pork, lamb and also
>> fish and
>> : shellfish. I have a turkey breast that I will make for him and Angela
>> : tonight unless she decides that she wants toasted cheese instead. And
>> once
>> : I get her out of the shower, we will be headed to her school to get
>> ready
>> : for it to start then off to shopping. I need to get some more veggies.
>> I
>> : have celery and that is good. Apparently tomatoes and spinach are not.
>> I'm
>> : going to make a big pan of stir fried rice with egg.
>>
>> My son was once thought to have gout. Fortunately, it turnedout not to
>> be. He was given a diet plan by his MD and not put on the med Jaquie
>> talked about. We looked at the diet and described it as "the diet from
>> hell." It was competely counter to diabetes, very low in protiens and
>> high in carbs. Not all fish was out, but IIRC salmon was the worst. Your
>> husband should get a diet list from his doctor if at all possible. It
>> wil
>> helphim and you know what he will be albe to eat without causeing him
>> nasty pain. As he will be away at his job for a large part of the time,
>> he should know what he can eat whether he cooks for himself or eats in
>> food service or restaurants or whatever.
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> I had severe gout and had to go off the medication. Strict carb diet
> instead (but also lots of low carb veggies) and no gout attacks since. And
> naturally I was eating more meat with the low carb. I was told to make the
> diet more alkaline so it is weird that people prescribe high carb isn't
> it:
>
> Extremely Acid Forming Foods - with a pH of 5.0 to 5.5
> Artificial sweeteners, HFCS, Carbonated soft drinks & fizzy drinks ,
> Cigarettes , Flour (white wheat), Goat, Lamb, Pastries & cakes from white
> flour, Pork, Sugar, Beer, Brown sugar, Deer, Chocolate, Coffee , Custard
> with white sugar, Jams, Jellies, Liquor , Pasta, Rabbit, Semolina, Table
> salt refined & iodized, Tea black, Turkey, Breads White / Wheat, White
> rice, commercial vinegar.

Oh crap. Turkey is on there. I just can't win.