First off, what is Gout? Gout (also known as podagra when it involves the big toe) is a medical condition usually characterized by recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis—a red, tender, hot, swollen joint.
Scientists claim, women who drink just two glasses of orange juice a day are twice as likely to get gout. When you drink 2 glasses a day, you are 2.5times higher at risk of the painful condition – the same as if you drink 2 cans of sugary soft drink. Even 1 glass of juice raises the risk by 40%!
However, men are 4x more likely to suffer from the condition. But the number of female cases has doubled in the last 20 years.
Experts believe the high fruit sugar, or fructose, content of juice causes uric acid – a waste product in the blood – to leach into joints, causing them to become swollen and very painful.
Gout is often linked to an overindulgent diet which includes too much alcohol or red meat. It was common among wealthy, portly gentlemen in the Tudor, Georgian and Victorian eras.
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