Gout is a particularly painful form of inflammatory arthritis, often in the large toe, as a result of
excess uric acid levels in the body.
Not exact matches
An
excess of fructose sugar in your diet isn't good for your health because it is processed differently to other sugars, where it's metabolised by the liver and can increase fatty
acids in your blood and increase
uric acid levels amongst a whole host of other things.
Dietary
excesses, such as consuming a lot of red meat and alcohol, have long been associated with gout, a disease marked by high
levels of
uric acid in the blood and whose causes remain somewhat of an enigma despite centuries of investigation.
The dangers of
excess fructose have been widely cited and include increased insulin resistance (which can lead to type - 2 diabetes), raised
uric acid levels, raised blood pressure, increased risk of fatty liver disease, and more.
Both high
uric acid and homocysteine
levels are a direct result of
EXCESS carbohydrate consumption.
The kidneys filter out this
excess uric acid in the production of urine, thus increasing the
level of
uric acid in the bladder.
When
excess uric acid builds up in the blood, other areas of the body can develop high
uric acid levels as well.