Posted
4/15/2004 09:35:00 PM
by Douglas
Got Gout? Give up the beer, and take up
wine.It's official -- drinking causes gout. But if you must drink alcohol, drink wine, scientists say.
For centuries, the painful, crippling joint inflammation has been immortalized by poets and playwrights -- more than a few of whom wrote from personal experience -- as the curse of heavy drinkers.
Poets, playwrights, suffering from a drunk's disease? Go figure.