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Tips to Manage Your Uric Acid

A natural, healthy lifestyle is the key to healthy uric acid function.

It's startling to realize that over 5 million Americans suffer from unhealthy uric acid. Signs can range from fevers and chills, to discomfort and swelling of the joints. But did you know that you can manage uric acid through your diet and lifestyle? Stand out of the crowd, and take control of your health today. Read some of the helpful tips below.

The Uric Acid Diet

To pull in the reigns on your uric acid, it's important to watch what you eat. Certain foods create uric acid in your body, making the food dangerous to those who already have enough. If you're worried about uric acid, you should try some of these tips:

• Limit your alcohol consumption. Have no more than one drink, three times per week.
• Impose limitations on meat. It's better to get your protein from low-fat sources like eggs and tofu.
• Lower your fat intake as well. Avoid foods cooked in oils or deep fried. Eat leaner meats and low-fat dairy products.

Uric acid is the end result of your purine (one of the nucleotide bases that make up RNA and DNA) metabolism. By removing purine foods from your diet, your body will have less purine to metabolize, thus supporting healthy uric acid. You should also try avoiding:

• Liver
• Gravy
• Scallops
• Herring
• Mackerel
• Anchovies
• Game Meats
• Beef Kidneys
• Sweetbreads
• Meat Extracts

BMI

Studies have shown significantly higher uric acid in those who maintain an unhealthy weight. Try our BMI calculator below to discover your body mass index (BMI). A healthy BMI should be somewhere between 18.5 and 25. If you're anything above, it's time to lose weight.

Stay Active, Stay Healthy

Everyone knows there are many benefits to exercise. But did you know that in addition to supporting a healthy body weight, exercise combined with a healthy diet can help manage your uric acid? You should jog or bike at least twenty minutes a day to experience full benefits.

When you're within a healthy weight range, you'll feel more energetic, and much healthier.

Support Your Body and It Will Support You

In today's world, an unsupportive diet is commonplace. But eating healthy can be the most important factor when managing your uric acid.

Natural, unaltered products such as fruits (especially unsweetened cherries and other heavily pigmented berries) and vegetables are best. You should also try to add nuts and whole grains to your diet. Cold water fish, such as salmon, tuna, and halibut are essential as well.

In addition, drink plenty of water. The typical person should be consuming half their body weight in ounces of water a day (for example, a 120 lb person would drink 60 ounces).

Start following some of these tips, and you'll be on the road to healthy uric acid in no time!