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Gout- Warning Signs

Friday, February 19th, 2010

A gout attack strikes when you least expected it, that is to say at night. When you are sleeping peacefully, you suddenly feel some tenderness in the large joint of your big toe. That is a gout flare. That area suddenly becomes swollen, red and extremely painful. You might also develop a fever when suffering from a gout flare. The next 24 hours will also be very painful when having a gout.

When suffering from a gout, there are more factors of risk involved. However, one of those factors is the head of the list when talking about a gout attack. Elevated uric acid levels in your blood, also know as hyperuricemia is the main risk in a gout. All people who suffer from this condition are predisposed to having a gout flare. As your levels of acid rise in your blood, so does the risk of having a gout attack. Furthermore, this gout flare is very unpredictable. No one can say for sure when you are likely to have a gout attack. However, there are some factors that are thought to trigger the gout flare. Certain medicines, alcohol, stress and some other medical problems that you might suffer from may trigger a gout. Even if such factors are thought to be the ones responsible for a gout attack, there are many times that neither you nor your doctor can say for sure what was the cause of your gout flare. To predict the time of the chances of you having a gout attack can be done. This is not quite certain,

but it may give you an idea. all you have to do is visit your doctor and have your levels of uric acid measured. This is the way to predict if you are likely to suffer from a gout attack in the future or not.

You can have your gout treated, but it does not make any difference when it come to symptoms. The gout symptoms will actually go away in about one week, even if you do not treat your gout signs. Furthermore, there is always the chance that you will not suffer from another gout flare again. However, if you do suffer from other gout flares, this do not look so good for you. As time passes, the gout attacks become more painful. There is also the risk that if suffering from more than one gout attack, the duration of the attacks increases with time.

Almost ninety percent of all gout patients, suffer from flares in the big toe. However, gout attacks may happen in other joints, like the knee, fingers, wrist. The gout signs are the same no matter the location of the attack.

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Tips for Diabetic, High BP, High Cholesterol and Gout Patient?

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

My dad is diabetic, has high blood pressure, high cholesterol and he has gout(uric acid problem). So I need to know more about what he must do to stay in the safe zone.

He is overweight, but the weird thing is only his tummy is fat, his arms, chests and legs are all very normal. He is planning to control his Diet but we are clueless as to what he should eat and what he should not(e.g. food that will not worsen his diabetes may worsen his gout).

He is also starting to exercise, 45-60mins of brisk walking in the morning, 5 day a week. Is this enough?

Here are some readings:

Fasting Blood Glucose Level: 132 mg/dL
Blood Pressure: 148/91
Cholesterol: I am not sure but this was the first condition that he developed.

A great way for a diabetic to eat, also great for the whole familt is a Low Glycemic Diet.
http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm
This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

Now for reducing Cholesterol , Walking is great, but Nordic Walking is the best.
Description
Nordic walking can be done year round in any climate and anywhere a person of any age or ability might otherwise walk without poles. It combines simplicity and accessibility of walking with simultaneous core and upper body conditioning similar to Nordic skiing. The result is a full-body walking workout that can burn significantly more calories without a change in perceived exertion or having to walk faster, due to the incorporation of many large core, and other upper-body muscles which comprise more than 90% of the body’s total muscle mass and do work against resistance with each stride. ‘Normal walking’ utilizes less than 70% of muscle mass with full impact on the joints of the legs and feet.

Nordic Ski Walking produces up to a 46% increase in energy consumption compared to walking without poles.[1]

Benefits
Compared to regular walking, Nordic walking involves applying force to the poles with each stride. Nordic walkers use more of their entire body (with greater intensity) and receive fitness building stimulation not as present in normal walking for the chest, lats, triceps, biceps, shoulder, abdominals, spinal and other core muscles. This extra muscle involvement leads to enhancements over ordinary walking at equal paces such as:

increased overall strength and endurance in the core muscles and the entire upper body
significant increases in heart rate at a given pace
greater ease in climbing hills
burning more calories than in plain walking
improved balance and stability with use of the poles
significant un-weighting of hip, knee and ankle joints
effective weight bearing exercise - creates positive total body bone density-preserving stress
I use plain old wooden sticks, works well>
Kewl!
Alone with 500 mg. of Nicotinic Acid (a form of niacin )my cholesterol came right done to normal. I take 250 mg. in the morning and the same at night. This was over a 3 month period. Nordic walking every day. The bad cholesterol comes down and the good rises. I do 1 1/2 hours of walking a day. He will also lose that belly fat. The walking will bring his Blood pressure down to 120/70. Use to be 139 /87. Good luck to dad

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