Gout: Foods to Avoid - Foods to Enjoy Paperback – Large Print, November 10, 2018

This recipe book explains a little about gout and then it is filled with fantastic recipes. Honest ,simple and truly healthy meals. I don't have gout but I like the ingredients for myself and family.I like to get ideas from recipe books and even combine some recipes to my taste.A nice gift too!

The book is in two parts - gout information and recipes. The first section, although 19 pages with large double space text and large font and much white space takes very few minutes to read through. The information is BASIC and can easily be obtained from an internet search.O.K. Fine. I'm thinking that the book might redeem itself with a collection of great recipes. Nope. One example is where it instructs you to add the marinade. But there were never instructions to MAKE the marinade nor a list of it's ingredients. Again, these are all double spaced with a large font.My last comment concerns a personal pet peeve - fillers. The book is full of unnecessary pages which just seem to be included to add volume and provide no information. For instance, every single recipe has a full blank page for notes. That's unnecessary. There is more than enough white space on the recipe pages to make plenty of notes.Finally, the book ends with 10 pages of picture of other books by the same author on the same topic!I gave it two stars for two reasons. First, if the reader knew nothing about gout, then it's easily readable basic information. I read it cover to cover in less than a half hour. The second, because it's my own fault for not researching the copyright and author before purchasing - it is a self-published pamphlet. I know better than to buy one of these!

This book literally contradicts itself on foods that are okay to eat vs. foods to avoid. You come away from this thinking you need ANOTHER book on gout to say definitively what is okay and what isn't - which was the whole point in buying the book in the first place. We will go to more reliable sources in the future like Mayo Clinic or Johns Hopkins.

Great book. Very informative.

Was disappointed on this book, did tell u what to eat and avoid but not very specific and detail. For example was stating many nuts are fine for those with gout then listed 4 kinds which u can eat. Many info which can easily search online. Then the rest was just recipe.

This book is a quick read indeed, and the guidance is easily found on the web.

Very simple general overview could find most answers on the internet. Far too expensive for content

I’m just a regular guy. I eat a pretty well balanced diet, I enjoy beer, and I have a very soft spot for Irish whisky. I recently had a gout attack (which, by the way, the name doesn’t do it justice, as anyone who has had such an attack will tell you), and like most, I will go to great lengths to try and avoid another, including letting go of the adult beverages. My wife is also eager (desperate?) for me to avoid another attack, so she purchased this book for me based on the positive review that accompanied it.I hate to be petty, but I’ll make an exception here. For starters, the font they employ is reminiscent of a primary grade primer. It’s HUGE! Makes you feel like they’re talking slow and loud so that you’ll understand. Except, there’s nothing to really understand. They devote a mere 27 lines (and remember the “font” thing, here) to an absolute bare-bones description of gout, followed by eleven pages of “Foods to Avoid” and “Foods to Enjoy” (Note: Whole Grains can apparently be either “Avoided” or “Enjoyed”, because they are included in both lists). They then launch into the meat of the book, thirty Gout-friendly recipes. Wait, did I say the “meat” of the book? Poor choice of words, because although they include a number of meats in the “Foods to Enjoy” list, not one of their recipes contains any meat at all. Not one. Same goes for cheese and other dairy products. Of the thirty recipes they provide, eight involve coconut, which I cannot eat, seven involve eggplant, which I will not eat, and one involves tempeh (to be perfectly honest, I don’t even know that is). The final eight recipes in the series are various “smoothie” concoctions, including one utilizing a base of cherries and celery.So, bottom line: uninformative, simplistic, and probably a wellspring of tasty treats for your neighborhood vegan, but certainly of little value to anyone else. A complete waste.