Orange Juice Causes Gout In Women: Experts Say

Women who drink only two glasses of orange juice a day are twice as likely to get gout, researchers say claim.They a growing number of developing the painful disease, in the form of arthritis that usually occurs only in males.

The researchers found that women who drank a glass of orange juice a day were 40 percent more likely to develop gout.Those had two drinks a day had a risk two and a half times higher than the disease, which is linked to poor nutrition and often associated with Victorian times.

Experts say the high sugar content in fruit juice causes of uric acid - a waste product in the blood - to seep into the joints, causing them to become swollen and very affecting painful.Gout to 1.5 percent of the British although men are four times more likely to develop the condition than women.

But the number of cases in women has doubled in the last 20 years and now affects 3.5 per cent compared with well-60.In the past, has been linked to alcohol and a diet high in red meat.

The experts also showed soft drinks may increase risk.The disease is particularly common among wealthy gentlemen, big in the fabric, Georgian and Victorian eras and Henry VIII is supposed to have been victim.

Researchers at the University of Boston studied 80 000 women over 22 years, all of which regularly carry out surveys, what they ate and drank.They found that those who drank a glass of orange juice per day on 41 for risk percent higher, while those who had two or more was 2.4 times in danger.

The study, published in the Journal of American Medicine Association revealed that women who had the butter and sugary soft drinks were 70 percent more likely to get the condition of those who were at least two were 2.4 times more vulnerable - the same as drinking orange juice. The researchers warn that women should consider cutting the orange juice and soft drinks to reduce the risk.

Dr. Hyon Choi, School of Medicine, Boston University, said: "fructose-rich beverages such as soda and sweetened orange juice may increase serum uric acid and therefore the risk of gout, but possible data on the relations are limited.

Last year, the same team of scientists have found that gout affects 3.5 percent of women 60 to 69, 4.6 percent of the age group between 70 and 79, 5, 6 percent over 80.