If you have ever asked the question 'Why do I have gout?' you will almost invariably been told that it is because you have too much uric acid, something which is bound to be your fault as it is caused by eating too much purine rich food and drinking too much alcohol. Well you can forget about purines. Purine rich food does not cause gout and a low purine diet will not cure it. This book challenges conventional wisdom and reveals the truth about what really causes gout. Some of you will have heard about the dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup, but you will be surprised to learn that there are other things that many of us eat and drink every day of our lives that can also cause gout. The information in this book is based on scientific evidence, not the myths and old wives tales that have shrouded gout for so long. For years we have been told that that uric acid serves no biological purpose. This is absolutely not true. Nature has given us some simple and straightforward ways of keeping ourselves healthy and uric acid is one of them. We need a major re-think of how we look at high levels of uric acid and gout. Maybe gout is giving us a wake up call and uric acid is not quite the bad guy it is made out to be.