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Anyone suffering from this traumatic arthritic condition will fully appreciate the new edition of Getting Rid Of Gout.Included in the new sections are updated dietary guidelines, including current research on the role of diet in preventing gout, and a description of the new medications available for its treatment.Bryan Emmerson, a recognised authority on gout, argues that if control of the elevated concentrations of uric acid can be achieved through either diet or medication modifications, gout attacks will cease and there will be no further complications.He goes on to outline how effective prevention of gout requires sufferers to understand their condition, one that can be a result of both genetic and lifestyle factors.Written in an understandable and sympathetic manner with the aid of diagrams and cartoons, Getting Rid of Gout offers sensible advice and dispels the popular fallacies about the nature and causes of gout. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

good but limited
this book gives a good background on the medical aspects of gout.
It fails to give detailed information about dietary limitations available more recently.
Recommend the Gout Haters Diet Book for more extensive food recommendations.

Good reference - no magic bullets
This book gets fairly technical yet remains accessible to the non-medical specialist.Very comprehensive, good evaluation of the existing alternatives.Plus, enough description of what's understood of the mechanism of gout for you to evaluate new treatments.

Highly recommended for those who want to learn more about how to treat their gout and understand the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative.

Pass The Black Cherry Juice
I shouldn't be commenting on this, since I have not read the book. I don't know if I'm repeating information from the book, but as a Gout sufferer, I feel compelled to mention that black cherry juice or concentrate helped relieve the pain in my toe and ankle. Your mileage may vary, but Google it and there seems to be plenty of anecdotal evidence that it works.

One of those great small books.NOT snake oil.
This is an excellent concise but comprehensive book on the gout for the lay reader. It would be better not to have gout, but if you do need to manage it, this is the best book I've seen.The size, title and the photo on the cover gave me the impression that the book was likely to be simplistic and wrong.In fact, it strikes a good balance between readability and detail.It also turns out that Dr Emmerson has published quite a few papers on gout in serious peer reviewed journals.

GREAT BOOK - NEW GOUT SUFFERS MUST READ!
If you have gout then READ THIS BOOK ASAP - This is the only comprehensive guide to GOUT I could locate.Excellent reference if you want to understand all aspects and possible causes.I ask lots of questions and this book answered 99 percent of my concerns. Buy your doctor one also - I am new to this condition but now have a definitive plan of action to determine the cause and cure it - not just treat the symptoms.DR. Emmerson if you read these THANK YOU!My TOE wishes I would have found this book 9 months ago. ... Read more

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Gout Hater's fans will love to see this wonderful, delicious addition to the collection!Complete with information on the latest research results, Gout Hater's Cookbook IV provides a master index of all four volumes, as well as a wide variety of vegetarian and meat dishes.Special attention is also paid to apple cider vinegar, which assists in balancing the pH levels in the body.As with all books in the Gout Hater's Cookbook collection, each book can be purchased separately and independently of the others, with a minimal amount of recipe duplications (e.g., homemade margarine). With more than 100 tasty new recipes, Gout Hater's Cookbook IV serves as a welcome 10th anniversary celebration of the Gout Hater's Cookbook beginnings, as well as a reminder that diet limitations do not need to be seen as unhappy restrictions. ... Read more

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Best Specialty Cookbook
This cookbook is not only inventive, but tasteful and easy to understand. It has helped me so much in being able to cook healthy enjoyable meals, not only for my husband(who has gout) but for my entire family. I recomend it to anyone and everyone. ... Read more

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The perfect addition to the Gout Hater's Collection, designed specifically for persons suffering from gout.This new book complies with the modified purine diet in its predecessor, Gout Hater's Cookbook.It also meets the requirements of the restricted purine diet.

The recipes you will find in Book II feature a more detailed, albeit restriced, food list, for a delicious ovo-lacto- (eggs and milk allowed) vegetarian diet.

Gout Hater's Cookbook II was put together in an effort to demonstrate just how delectably well you can eat, even on a restricted purine diet, while continually helping to lower your uric acid levels.

Over 100 recipes, 112 pages, features comprehensive food lists of foods allowed and not allowed. Sections include Questions and Answers, Helpful Hints, Breakfast, Appetizers, Beverages, Main Dishes, Sides, Sauces, Desserts, Metric Conversion Chart and a lengthy bibliography. ... Read more

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Great Addition
I bought Gout Hater's Cookbook I for my father, who suffers from Gout. He liked the recipes and the information so much I also bought Gout Hater's II and III. He has thanked me many times for this very helpful resource.

Life Altering Information
Received Gout Hater's Cookbook I as a gift and my wife has used the recipes and important tips for the last year.Information is provided in a concise easy to use style.We just added Gout Hater's Cookbook II and III to our kitchen reference library and we now have three times as many great recipes to use.We can't wait for Cookbook IV and hope that it includes a master index of the recipes from all versions.Thanks for making this information available to us.

Just Brilliant

This book is simply wonderful! It really helped me find and make easy-but-elegant recipes for everyday life (and even parties). My husband and I enjoyed the book so much we bought all three! Simply superb, I hope she writes more!

Great information!
It is so hard to find information on gout.This book is well-researched, offers lots of information and the recipes are delicious and easy to fix.The bibliography alone is worth the price. ... Read more

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Gout Hater's Cookbook I, Recipes Lower in Purines and Lower in Fat. This cookbook features comprehensive lists of foods lower, relatively high and highest in purines. Designed specifically for persons suffering from gout.

Includes recent research information concerning how different aspects of the diet (high purine vegetables, meat, seafood and dairy intake) affect the risk of gout.

Consisting of 104 pages and over 90 recipes, this book offers a wide variety in cuisine. Sections contain:Appetizers, Beverages, Main Dishes, Sides, Sauces and Desserts. "Quick Snack" and "Small Change, Big Difference" boxes are scattered throughout.

Fourth Edition, Revised, July, 2004. ... Read more

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Gout haters cookbook
I boughtthis book for my son who suffers from gout.After following the suggested food plan his gout improved greatly.

great if you HAVE to use it
this book is very helpful for those unfortunate folks who cannot eat protein.. It's amazing the different recipes that are available and even though they all look totally disgusting and I will remain a happy carnivore.. my husband ( the gout boy) has maintained a "purine" free diet and is happy in his "vegetive" state...

It's About Time
This book is wonderful.I am very limited to what food I can eat because of the gout.This book has some great recipes in it.Even my kids like the recipes. My gout is now under control with the help of foods that I can eat.

Thank you.

no longer needed
I own a previous edition of this book.It is useless.The recipes are mediocre but, more importantly, the science, in the edition I own, is outdated.At one time, gout sufferers were told to avoid most proteins, and this extreme restriction guided the cookbook.Since 2004, a much more nuanced recommendation is possible.Fish/seafood is very high risk, red meat fairly high risk.But vegetable and dairy proteins are beneficial.I control gout by diet, and I do so by using the many excellent vegetarian cookbooks available.They're a lot more interesting than this one!

If you want to see the relevant science, google "gout" and "2004" and "New England Journal of Medicine."If the new edition of this book reflects the recent science, the author should explain how.

contradicting information from medical journals on food list
I was rather disappointed in this book, only to find alot of the foods that they used in the recipes are on the "DO NOT" eat list for those who have gout.How can they even title this 'Gout Haters' cook book?I felt like this was very falsely advertised. ... Read more

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"Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition."-Los Angeles Times

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Restricted purine diet, complies with modified and restricted purine diets.Features lists of Foods Allowed and Not Allowed, showing Lowest, Relatively High and Highest in Purines.Features suggestions for holiday dishes. Over 100 recipes, 109 pages.Sections include Breakfast, Appetizers & Beverages, Dips, Main Dishes, Soups, Sides & Sauces, Salads, Desserts and Basics from Scratch.Comprehensive bibliography. ... Read more

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very helpful
I borrowed this book and am now buying it. It has very good and helpful information not easily found. Also, for the record, "dietitian" is the preferred spelling of the word (according to American Heritage Dictionary), "dietician" the "also" spelling!

gout hater
This cookbook is very helpful to anyone concerned with the gout as well as a healthy diet.Vegetarians would love the recipes.I have tried several and found them to be excellent and easy to make. Thank you.

Gout Hater's Cookbook 111
I expected more and better receipes.I did however find the information
on gout and the different levels of purine catagories helpful.

Gout Hater's Cookbook III
this book wass very helpful for my freinds father.
thank for the fast service in getting to me.
and the price was great.

Gout Cookbook
If you suffer from gout I would highly recommend you getting this book.It haws helped me tremendously.The recipes are excellent and the food taste great!It is more of a lifestyle change, but if you want gout to go away once and for all I would get this book.I also bought the other two as well and all 3 are a must have.I highly recommend these books. ... Read more

Amazon.com
In their study of an ailment that has tormented the big toes of some big men--Kant, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson--Porter and Rousseau turn the argument of Susan Sontag inIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors on its head. Sontag thinks disease should be freed of its freight of cultural associations and stigmas.

But disease and metaphor inevitably go hand in hand. This was especially true in the days when gout was mysterious, before Queen Victoria's future physician showed it was caused by uric-acid crystals producing excruciating pain in the extremities. Milton told a friend that if he were only free of gout pain, blindness would be tolerable. The pain felt "as if I was walking on my eyeballs," writes one sufferer. Since one had to be rich to live long enough to get gout, and most victims were males (many of whom drank port laced with gout-intensifying lead), it won a reputation as just punishment for high living, and even a kind of badge of meritocratic honor. It was God's gift to caricaturists like Hogarth, Cruikshank, and Gillray. George Eliot used gout as a symbol for a sick society inMiddlemarch.The data fascinates, but the professors don't wear their learning lightly. Still, they do score some good phrases. Explaining that there aren't many portraits of gout sufferers because few victims would pose, they write, "Who wants to be remembered as a septuagenarian freak of Falstaffian glob?" --Tim AppeloBook Description
Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life. This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice, and class, and explains why gout was gender specific. ... Read more

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Gout
My son suffers from gout and this book explains many facts that some of us are unaware of.

History, not Medicine
This was a very interesting book from a/an historical perspective.I would have liked more information on the disease pathology from a layperson's view.

A fashionable ailment
This is the third review I have written on Socio-medical histories by Roy Porter. I read and reviewed this book, "Gout - the Patrician Malady" at the same time as his more general medical histories"Cambridge Illustrated History: Medicine" - and "The Greatest Benefit to Mankind". I wanted to compare these books with Porter's work on more specific topics. Porter mentions Gout in passing in both his general histories, but I wondered how he would deal with a more specific subject which had the space of an entire book to develop.

He certainly brings the same light writing style to this book as he does to his other subjects and I it made fun reading for what at times could have been very dull and dry.

Porter turns a medical subject into a very interesing social history, he overlays the historical recognition of Gout, its rise in prevalance and treatment, as well as the development of it as a fashionable, upper-class ailment very well. He does this by drawing in the literature and art of the times to track its social progress. Porter certainly shows himself a master of the subject. However, I didn't like the way he sectioned the book. It felt clumsy to me. It is in three parts Histories, Cultures and Goutometries and they seemed to overlap especially the last two sections. Although I did love the chapter on Art in 'Goutometries'. Perhaps the most interesting chapter for me was the in the 'Cultures' section "Indian Summer; Romantic and Victorian Gout" which traced the literary tradition against the actual social status of Gout through the nineteenth century using representations of Gout in Disraeli and Austen to George Eliot. The most amusing thing, I thought, was Gout as a symbol of social status - Gout was for the upper classes, and rather fashionable -and this resulted in many non-gout illnesses being diagnosed as Gout.

At times I found the book rather long - but I rather think that was me rather than the writing. Most of my interest lies in the Georgian period which was really the peak of the Gout popularity. I wish it had been illustrated in colour too. The only illustrations at all were in the Goutometries and those were black reproductions on standard paper. The book probably has limited interest to most people - but for lovers of Georgian period or medical histories I think this is well worth reading. ... Read more

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Gout is a type of acute arthritis characterized by severe pain and inflammation in the joint(s) and soft tissues affected. When it is not treated attacks can become more frequent and painful and long-term damage can ensue.This book explains the causes, which include overindulgence, crash dieting and injury, and how medicines and lifestyle changes can be used to control the pain and overcome the condition.Table of Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. What is Gout?2. Getting Help from Your Doctor3. Helping Yourself4. Eating to Combat Gout5. Complementary Therapies6. Emotional HelpUseful AddressesReferencesFurther ReadingIndex ... Read more

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Helpful advice
I found this book to be informative, easily read and understood and written with a helpful positive outlook.

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This sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to gout, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on gout. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Gout: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Gout; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Gout; Chapter 5. Patents on Gout; Chapter 6. Books on Gout; Chapter 7. Multimedia on Gout; Chapter 8. Periodicals and News on Gout; Chapter 9. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Rights and Insurance; Appendix F. More on Rheumatic Diseases and Arthritis; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; GOUT GLOSSARY;INDEX. Related topics include: Acute gouty arthritis, Chronic gout, Chronic gouty arthritis, Familial Juvenile Gouty Nephropathy, Familial Juvenile Hyperuricemic Nephropathy, Familial Nephropathy Associated with Hyperuricemia, Gouty arthritis, Gouty Nephropathy, Juvenile Gouty Nephropathy, Uric acid nephrolithiasis.Download Description
This sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to gout, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on gout. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Gout: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Gout; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Gout; Chapter 5. Patents on Gout; Chapter 6. Books on Gout; Chapter 7. Multimedia on Gout; Chapter 8. Periodicals and News on Gout; Chapter 9. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Rights and Insurance; Appendix F. More on Rheumatic Diseases and Arthritis; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; GOUT GLOSSARY;INDEX. Related topics include: Acute gouty arthritis, Chronic gout, Chronic gouty arthritis, Familial Juvenile Gouty Nephropathy, Familial Juvenile Hyperuricemic Nephropathy, Familial Nephropathy Associated with Hyperuricemia, Gouty arthritis, Gouty Nephropathy, Juvenile Gouty Nephropathy, Uric acid nephrolithiasis. ... Read more

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Divided into five expansive sections, this guide provides an in-depth review of crystal-induced arthritis and related disorders.Providing a historical perspective throughout, this work includes detailed descriptions of the clinical features of these diseases, as well as a current overview of their identification, epidemiology, genetics, and underlying pathophysiology.This authoritative guide also reviews case studies, current diagnostic tools, and the prevalence of these conditions while introducing new and emerging therapies for disease management.

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This digital document is an article from Pamphlet by: Nat'l Inst. of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, published by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on January 8, 1999. The length of the article is 2743 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Questions and Answers About Gout.(Pamphlet)
Publication: Pamphlet by: Nat'l Inst. of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases (Pamphlet)
Date: January 8, 1999
Publisher: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Page: 1

Article Type: Pamphlet, Topic Overview

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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 522 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: It's confirmed: meat and seafood raise risk of gout, dairy foods lower it.(Rheumatology)
Author: Mary Ann Moon
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 37Issue: 11Page: 18(1)

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