Try Meatless Monday
Now, if you read the above section and are thinking to yourself, “But I love meat! How am I supposed to survive with limiting it!” Well, if you are serious about getting your gout under control, you are going to have to make some compromises. Red meat and anything based off it, including deli meats, gravies, sauces, and even wild game, is going to be limited or crossed off the grocery list entirely.
In other words, this is the perfect opportunity to try Meatless Mondays, where you swap animal proteins for plant-based proteins, like beans, legumes, and soy-meat alternatives. After all, in 2013, the National Institutes of Health released the results of a study that looked at the serum concentrate of uric acid in both meat-eaters and fish-eaters compared to vegetarians and vegans. The study carefully monitored 670 men and 1,023 female participants (422 vegans, 422 vegetarians, 425 fish eaters, and 424 meat eaters) with a range of ages. Oddly enough, vegans had the highest levels of uric acid, followed by meat eaters. Pescatarians and vegetarians scored low continuously.
So, going veggie once in a while is indeed a strategy for controlling your uric acid levels.
