good milk, bad meat

If you want to prevent painful gout you should drink milk and dairy products. You should not, however, eat lots of red meat and seafood. This is according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Hyon Choi, study leader, said that this is the first evidence that dairy products can be strongly protective against gout. Dr. Choi works at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Beans, peas, mushrooms, spinach and cauliflower do not seem provoke gout, the researchers said. People used to think they did. The team monitored 47,250 male health professionals. According to the team, if you eat an extra portion of beef, pork or lamb each day your risk of developing gout goes up by 21%.If you have an extra seafood meal a week you risk goes up by 7%. Strangely, this risk is most prevalent among men who are not overweight. If you drink one to five glasses of low-fat milk per day, your risk goes down by 43%, said Dr. Choi.