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The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan: The Optimal Nutrition Guide to Manage Gout
The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan is the nutritional strategy to take control of gout for long-term relief.
A gout-friendly diet plays a significant role in reducing painful flares for long-term treatment. Removing the guesswork out of what to eat and when, The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan kick-starts relief with a research-based meal plan and cookbook. It’s your guide to eating well and achieving optimal health.
From day one, you’ll find the support and tools you need to help understand your gout diagnosis and change your diet with fully planned meals, shopping lists, and preparation pointers. With nutrient-packed recipes that not only help with gout but also promote heart and kidney health, The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan is a big step toward pain-relief. The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan
An essential introduction to understanding gout and which foods help reduce flares.4-week meal plan that maps out weekly meals and provides shopping lists, prep tips, and more.75 recipes for gout-sensitive meals that are also DASH and Heart Healthy.Feel the difference food makes in fighting off attacks and flares.
A gout-friendly diet plays a significant role in reducing painful flares for long-term treatment. Removing the guesswork out of what to eat and when, The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan kick-starts relief with a research-based meal plan and cookbook. It’s your guide to eating well and achieving optimal health.
From day one, you’ll find the support and tools you need to help understand your gout diagnosis and change your diet with fully planned meals, shopping lists, and preparation pointers. With nutrient-packed recipes that not only help with gout but also promote heart and kidney health, The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan is a big step toward pain-relief. The 28-Day Gout Diet Plan
An essential introduction to understanding gout and which foods help reduce flares.4-week meal plan that maps out weekly meals and provides shopping lists, prep tips, and more.75 recipes for gout-sensitive meals that are also DASH and Heart Healthy.Feel the difference food makes in fighting off attacks and flares.
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Published January 22, 2019
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August 13, 2019
It may be a bit bold, if not presumptuous, of me to say so, but this book is not an optimal nutrition guide when it comes to managing gout. To be sure, many of the recipes in this book are healthy and likely to aid in encouraging heart health, and they do at least avoid sugars and high fructose corn syrups that are major encouragement to gout flare-ups, as well as seeking to minimize sodium. I can also praise the author's intent to manage gout to avoid gout attacks as well, being someone who occasionally and very painfully suffers from gout myself. But this book does not offer the best advice when it comes to dealing with gout, not least because the author includes quite a few pork dishes and even highly touts (usually pig-provided) gelatin as ingredients in some of these dishes. And a great many foods, where they do not include pork, include other inflammatory foods like peppers and tomatoes, which makes using this book a bit more dubious than one would think. Far from being an optimal nutrition guide in dealing with gout, this book has some major shortcomings in its approach.
As far as its materials go, this book is a bit less than 200 pages and consists of two parts and about 11 chapters in total. The author begins with a foreword and introduction where she tries to prove herself as an authority in how to nutritionally manage gout in such a way as to provide not only food for someone who suffers from this immensely painful disease but also other family members concerned about diet restrictions. The first part of the book consists of three chapters where the author first defines gout (1), discusses how gout management deals with nutrition in general (2), and then defines a gout meal plan over the course of four weeks based on the recipes in the book (3). The second part of the book, quite sensibly, deals with eight chapters of recipes that start with breakfasts (4) and then move on to soups, salads, and sandwiches (5), meatless main dishes (6), poultry (7), beef, pork, and lamb dishes (8), fish and seafood (9), dessert (10), as well as various staples, dressings, and condiments (11). After that the author discusses measurement conversions and provides references, some resources for further reading, a recipe index, as well as another general index for the book.
In reading a book like this which amounts to a cookbook with some supplemental material, my main goal is to see if there are any dishes here that are worth trying. And although I do not appreciate the book's frequent use of tomatoes and peppers and pork products in the ingredients, there are plenty of dishes here that are well worth trying: almond-crusted salmon with green beans, baked apple, balsamic chicken with brussels sprouts, chicken satay with peanut sauce, flank steak chimichurri with grilled vegetables, Mediterranean lamb rib chops with roasted fennel, slow-cooker turkey breast with root vegetables, spinach, walnut, and strawberry salad with citrus vinaigrette, and turkey with wild rice and kale among them. And ultimately, while I could take or leave the author's misguided meal plans and somewhat dodgy food choices, there was a great deal here to take to heart, including the way that gout is connected with a whole host of other co-morbidities that are extremely problematic based on my personal history. If this is not quite the ideal cookbook for someone like myself, it does at least present the understanding that there is a market for gout-friendly cookbooks, and at least gives some hope that someone would make one that was more in line with my own dietary restrictions that are even more narrow than this book's advice.
As far as its materials go, this book is a bit less than 200 pages and consists of two parts and about 11 chapters in total. The author begins with a foreword and introduction where she tries to prove herself as an authority in how to nutritionally manage gout in such a way as to provide not only food for someone who suffers from this immensely painful disease but also other family members concerned about diet restrictions. The first part of the book consists of three chapters where the author first defines gout (1), discusses how gout management deals with nutrition in general (2), and then defines a gout meal plan over the course of four weeks based on the recipes in the book (3). The second part of the book, quite sensibly, deals with eight chapters of recipes that start with breakfasts (4) and then move on to soups, salads, and sandwiches (5), meatless main dishes (6), poultry (7), beef, pork, and lamb dishes (8), fish and seafood (9), dessert (10), as well as various staples, dressings, and condiments (11). After that the author discusses measurement conversions and provides references, some resources for further reading, a recipe index, as well as another general index for the book.
In reading a book like this which amounts to a cookbook with some supplemental material, my main goal is to see if there are any dishes here that are worth trying. And although I do not appreciate the book's frequent use of tomatoes and peppers and pork products in the ingredients, there are plenty of dishes here that are well worth trying: almond-crusted salmon with green beans, baked apple, balsamic chicken with brussels sprouts, chicken satay with peanut sauce, flank steak chimichurri with grilled vegetables, Mediterranean lamb rib chops with roasted fennel, slow-cooker turkey breast with root vegetables, spinach, walnut, and strawberry salad with citrus vinaigrette, and turkey with wild rice and kale among them. And ultimately, while I could take or leave the author's misguided meal plans and somewhat dodgy food choices, there was a great deal here to take to heart, including the way that gout is connected with a whole host of other co-morbidities that are extremely problematic based on my personal history. If this is not quite the ideal cookbook for someone like myself, it does at least present the understanding that there is a market for gout-friendly cookbooks, and at least gives some hope that someone would make one that was more in line with my own dietary restrictions that are even more narrow than this book's advice.
January 16, 2019
Did you know that despite being an ancient disease, "gout is on the rise globally, with a direct correlation the prevailing increases in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease"? The cause? "...unhealthy lifestyle changes that include less exercise and 24/7 access to processed foods." There is NO cure for gout HOWEVER you can learn to manage it.
What exactly is gout? Chapter 1 of this book will tell you. What foods are "healthy foods"? Which foods should you avoid?
This book contains four weeks of meal plans including shopping lists. The author believes that at the end of four weeks you should have learned enough to be able to plan your meals yourself. The recipes are marked as to whether they are:
Gluten-Free * Kidney Friendly * Diabetes Friendly * Vegan or Vegetarian
The recipe sections are:
Breakfast * Soups, Salads and Sandwiches * Meatless Mains * Poultry * Beef, Pork and Lamb * Fish and Seafood * Dessert * Staples, Dressings and Condiments
The recipes are easy to understand with clear ingredient lists and instructions. My one complaint, if you could call it that, is that many of the recipes call for low-sodium vegetable broth rather than using fresh/dried ingredients to make your own. The 'Staples, Dressings and Condiments' section is VERY useful and one you will likely refer to over and over again when making many of the recipes in this book as well as branching out and creating your own.
At the end of the book you will find measurement conversion charts. This is followed by resources, recipe index and then an ingredient index. What this is, is a list to make looking up a specific ingredient contained in a recipe much easier. Say you are looking to cook with carrots. Just head to 'C' and then 'Carrots' and you will find all the recipes containing carrots in one helpful list.
Whilst I personally do not suffer from gout, I can see where this book would really be helpful to someone who wanted to better their eating habits and health. I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher. That has not influenced my review with the thoughts and opinions above being my own. Thanks, Liz
What exactly is gout? Chapter 1 of this book will tell you. What foods are "healthy foods"? Which foods should you avoid?
This book contains four weeks of meal plans including shopping lists. The author believes that at the end of four weeks you should have learned enough to be able to plan your meals yourself. The recipes are marked as to whether they are:
Gluten-Free * Kidney Friendly * Diabetes Friendly * Vegan or Vegetarian
The recipe sections are:
Breakfast * Soups, Salads and Sandwiches * Meatless Mains * Poultry * Beef, Pork and Lamb * Fish and Seafood * Dessert * Staples, Dressings and Condiments
The recipes are easy to understand with clear ingredient lists and instructions. My one complaint, if you could call it that, is that many of the recipes call for low-sodium vegetable broth rather than using fresh/dried ingredients to make your own. The 'Staples, Dressings and Condiments' section is VERY useful and one you will likely refer to over and over again when making many of the recipes in this book as well as branching out and creating your own.
At the end of the book you will find measurement conversion charts. This is followed by resources, recipe index and then an ingredient index. What this is, is a list to make looking up a specific ingredient contained in a recipe much easier. Say you are looking to cook with carrots. Just head to 'C' and then 'Carrots' and you will find all the recipes containing carrots in one helpful list.
Whilst I personally do not suffer from gout, I can see where this book would really be helpful to someone who wanted to better their eating habits and health. I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher. That has not influenced my review with the thoughts and opinions above being my own. Thanks, Liz
February 2, 2019
Gout is a terrible malady. If you suffer from it, you know that I am probably understating its severity. The author states, “A patient shared that during a flare, the light wind from a fan blowing on his foot felt like an arrow piercing through it.” My own experience would agree with this patient’s assessment.
“As far back as 350 BC in the writings of Hippocrates, the ‘father of medicine”, chronicled it. At one time it was thought to be the illness of kings and was attributed to eating “rich” food which only they could afford. This “rich” food is common fare today made up of greasy (think fast food) and carbonated (glucose sweetened) drinks.
The author has included an incredible amount of great information about healthy eating. As she guides the read through this issue, we find out that the food selection which works best at controlling gout also helps with heart issues, kidney disease, diabetes, and many other things.
Actually, although the title talks about Gout, the recipes are plain healthy ones which all of us should seek to follow. They recipes look delicious and what’s more are good for you. The 28-day model gives you guidance you can live by. Bottom line - it’s practical and timely.
“As far back as 350 BC in the writings of Hippocrates, the ‘father of medicine”, chronicled it. At one time it was thought to be the illness of kings and was attributed to eating “rich” food which only they could afford. This “rich” food is common fare today made up of greasy (think fast food) and carbonated (glucose sweetened) drinks.
The author has included an incredible amount of great information about healthy eating. As she guides the read through this issue, we find out that the food selection which works best at controlling gout also helps with heart issues, kidney disease, diabetes, and many other things.
Actually, although the title talks about Gout, the recipes are plain healthy ones which all of us should seek to follow. They recipes look delicious and what’s more are good for you. The 28-day model gives you guidance you can live by. Bottom line - it’s practical and timely.
January 24, 2019
Having had a dad that suffered from gout, one cannot underestimate the importance of what ingredients to use in the meals. This book will give you right away a list of items to use and not to use as well as combine everything into a meal plan that gives you a month of meals as well as snack options.
I like this approach, it gives you flexibility but also guidance for what ingredients to choose from. This enables the reader to make up their own dishes and gives you the guidance you need to feel that you can now cook better meals for the gout patient in your family.
I know from personal experience that my dad's condition vastly improved with changed nutrition alone. I therefore recommend this book to anyone who suffers from gout or has a relative that suffers because if you are looking into ways to support the gout patient, adapting your nutrition is one thing you can do and it is definitely manageable on any budget. A lot of the meals in the book are home-cooking type meals and very budget friendly.
I was provided a free book from the publisher.
I like this approach, it gives you flexibility but also guidance for what ingredients to choose from. This enables the reader to make up their own dishes and gives you the guidance you need to feel that you can now cook better meals for the gout patient in your family.
I know from personal experience that my dad's condition vastly improved with changed nutrition alone. I therefore recommend this book to anyone who suffers from gout or has a relative that suffers because if you are looking into ways to support the gout patient, adapting your nutrition is one thing you can do and it is definitely manageable on any budget. A lot of the meals in the book are home-cooking type meals and very budget friendly.
I was provided a free book from the publisher.
January 25, 2019
I don’t have gout but have a friend that does and another friend who is exhibiting symptoms of gout so I wanted to learn more about it. I really like how the book is layer out. I found it very informative and will most definitely be recommending it to both of my friends. I can’t wait to try the Greek Turkey Burger on Page 74 it sounds delicious. Meringue cookies have always been one of my favorite cookies and the Chocolate Almond ones on page 138 were divine.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book provided to be by the publisher.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book provided to be by the publisher.
December 26, 2019
Very useful
While I may need to modify some of this plan because I live in a fairly remote part of Australia, and for my own tastes, I think it could provide what I need to follow in the new year.
I have learnt quite a bit about gout-friendly and unfriendly foods. While I knew about cherries, for example, I had no idea that sodium was a major problem.
While I may need to modify some of this plan because I live in a fairly remote part of Australia, and for my own tastes, I think it could provide what I need to follow in the new year.
I have learnt quite a bit about gout-friendly and unfriendly foods. While I knew about cherries, for example, I had no idea that sodium was a major problem.
March 12, 2020
Complete
As an Amazon dependent retired physician when recently diagnosed with gout I began searching for the best book to add to my 500+ iPad library. This book seems to be complete in preparing me to learn about gout and to find the diet good for me and satisfy my taste. Thanks to Sophia.
As an Amazon dependent retired physician when recently diagnosed with gout I began searching for the best book to add to my 500+ iPad library. This book seems to be complete in preparing me to learn about gout and to find the diet good for me and satisfy my taste. Thanks to Sophia.
January 23, 2019
Tasty recipes served with useful information
I don’t have gout but was interested in the connection with diabetes, hypertension, obesity and kidney stones.
The recipes are all good healthy sounding and could be used by almost anyone.
I don’t have gout but was interested in the connection with diabetes, hypertension, obesity and kidney stones.
The recipes are all good healthy sounding and could be used by almost anyone.
March 9, 2019
Much of the information you'll find about gout is out-of-date or not evidence-based. This book is the rare exception. As a dietitian, I will refer to it for future gout clients I work with; I will also recommend it to anyone looking to navigate the condition or cook for a person with it. Well done!
March 29, 2019
Very helpful
February 22, 2021
WANNA FIND BEST MEAL FOR GOUT PATIENT
May 26, 2021
If you are recently diagnosed and need some ideas of what you should eat, this book is a good starting place. It helped me feel like this was a managable condition.
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