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