Beer is really not with seafood?

Beer is really not with seafood? Beijing News · new knowledge weekly in summer, cold beer and delicious seafood, for many people especially attractive. In the coastal city, which almost became a way of life. However, you probably heard this argument: seafood could not just beer, or gout. It has many practical examples of support: often someone eating seafood drink beer, and gout attack. When taken to the hospital, doctors are often admonished: seafood in a large number of contains a substance called purines, it passes through metabolism after into uric acid, uric acid, too much can lead to gout, so be sure to eat seafood, especially not to eat seafood all drink beer. Thus, this diet with taboo almost everyone knows. With other legends diet with taboo, it cannot be said that this statement is wrong, just that it is not a problem in its entirety. Purine metabolism into uric acid will indeed, uric acid accumulation does cause gout, seafood in indeed contains a considerable number of purines. However, purine foods widely exists, not only exist in seafood. In General, seafood and meat contains more purine, animal offal content later. Some plant foods, such as bean also contain purines. For gout patients, eat any purine content of foods may trigger symptoms. "Eat seafood to drink beer" reasons, the most common explanation is that beer contains vitamin B1, vitamin B1 cause purine into uric acid. This argument has no merit. Although the beer production use yeast contains large amounts of vitamin B1, yeast consumption is very small. Therefore beer is very low in vitamin B1 content, can be ignored. But the absorption of vitamin B1, will also inhibits the affected by alcohol. At the same time, purine into uric acid is a normal metabolism, are not eat vitamin B1 will be able to avoid. Another explanation is that beer alcohol in the body's metabolism will exhaust pathway competition with uric acid, affecting uric acid excretion. This statement has some rationality. However, justthe beer and seafood, ate any purine content of food and drink, in theory, would lead to such consequences. Alcohol is the increased risk of gout, to eat seafood. For gout patients drink eat seafood (or a variety of meat and organ meats), are likely to exacerbate symptoms. In 2004, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study, the researchers on the tens of thousands of people for as long as 12 years of follow-up, during this period found hundreds of gout cases. The researchers put the tens of thousands of people follow the diet meat or seafood amount was cut into five groups. Comparison of their eating habits found that eating meat or seafood most that a group of people than the least that a group of people, the incidence of gout was probably high by 50%. For health, taking into account the fact that the incidence of gout was also not high, eating meat or seafood on the influence of gout, generally with red meat (pork, beef, mutton, etc.) on the effect of some cancer risk is — the influence of alcohol or similar. Then, when the end seafood could drink beer? for had symptoms of gout, any purine foods are to be avoided, seafood is only one class (or even not a purine content in the highest); any alcoholic beverages should avoid, beer is just one of a kind. On health, this depends entirely on your appetites and the tradeoffs between health: If you want to "absolute security", then the ratio of seafood purine rich meats, as well as content and almost all kinds of seafood, meat should not be eaten; but drink, it is not a "healthy" lifestyle, eat seafood irrelevant — increase the risk of gout, it also has many other adverse effects. Drink beer, eat seafood does increase the risk of gout, but with the usual drink eat meat, that risk is not necessarily better. □ Cloud Centerless (United States Food Engineering doctorate)