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Apparently only something like < 15% of gout cases are diet related. Certainly can imagine other cases can be aggravated by diet choices.

• darkerside 6y ago
  How is something diet aggravated but not diet related? Seems like all these people who claim there's no _meaningful_ correlation here are just setting goalposts in a way where they don't feel compelled to change their diets.
  • npsimons 6y ago
    > Seems like all these people who claim there's no _meaningful_ correlation here are just setting goalposts in a way where they don't feel compelled to change their diets. Bingo. People would rather find anything to blame but themselves. Change is also hard. People can change; most wont. You see it far too often in "fat acceptance" and "healthy at every size" communities.
  • easytiger 6y ago
    It's not caused by diet in 85% of cases. It can be aggravated by diet if you have it. You can't seriously tell me you don't see the difference?
    • darkerside 6y ago
      Easy, tiger. So you meant to say 15% of cases were primarily caused by diet? That's a much more sensible statement.
      • easytiger 6y ago
        My original statement was in a comment thread that had already asserted that, I was adding a statistic and both comments are still correct.