With the rapid development of modern society, people’s quality of life has also improved, and dietary habits have changed. At the same time, there is a growing trend of diseases presenting at a younger age, such as gout. In a normal human body, uric acid is produced every day and an equivalent amount is excreted to maintain a balance. Due to the excessive stress of modern life, working long hours, irregular lifestyles, smoking, and alcohol consumption, the imbalance of acid-base in the body increases uric acid concentration, leading to gout.
The “acid-expelling master” hidden around you, eating regularly, keeps uric acid from rising, keeping gout at bay.
Cucumber
Cucumber is also a commonly alkaline food, containing a very high amount of vitamin C, unmatched by ordinary vegetables, and also rich in water and potassium. Eating cucumbers not only detoxifies, diuretics, relieves heat, and quenches thirst but also helps excrete excess uric acid from the body, preventing gout.
Tomato
Containing a large amount of dietary fiber, pectin, various organic acids, and abundant elements, it can help excrete waste, cleanse the intestines, improve hypertension, and dissolve more uric acid.
Broccoli
Broccoli not only helps in weight loss but also enhances kidney metabolism; broccoli is rich in trace elements and carbohydrates, all of which help excrete uric acid from the body. Additionally, broccoli promotes intestinal peristalsis, enhancing the body’s metabolism from various angles.
Winter Melon
Winter melon, low in fat and calories, and containing less purine, is very suitable for gout patients. It is better not to peel winter melon because the peel contains beneficial components such as triterpenoids and cholesterol derivatives, having anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and cholesterol-lowering effects. Cooking winter melon with its peel in soup is more effective in reducing swelling, diuresis, relieving heat, lowering uric acid, and reducing cholesterol.
Cleavers
Cleavers are a very common food item with excellent diuretic effects, speeding up blood circulation, helping you excrete uric acid from the body, reducing the formation of blood uric acid. Moreover, when experiencing joint pain or gout attacks, drinking cleavers tea can help alleviate pain and relieve your discomfort.
Radish
Radishes contain various trace elements, aid digestion, low in calories and purines. Long-term consumption of radishes can lower blood lipids, soften blood vessels, prevent coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. Additionally, it has a strong function in promoting blood circulation, relieving cough, reducing phlegm, clearing heat, detoxifying, helping to excrete metabolic waste from the body.
In addition to eating more of these acidic-reducing foods, there is something else you should do to ensure stable uric acid levels.
Regular exercise
Many patients with high uric acid tend to have factors of obesity, which can lead to abnormal liver metabolism, increase body burden, hinder uric acid metabolism, increase the risk of gout, and also increase the risk of high blood lipids. Therefore, regular exercise becomes very important, especially engaging in appropriate aerobic exercise, which can help in weight reduction, decrease fat content, improve body function, promote body metabolism, and reduce the risk of developing diseases.
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