Brought on by purine-rich foods and drinks. Your body creates uric acid to break down the purines. Too much uric acid in the body can lead to that acid crystalizing in joints, which causes pain and swelling.
Not that I can recall. My pain is 100% either in my feet or in my thumb. Red, swollen, tender and hot to the touch, about the size of a quarter. Lasts anywhere from a couple of days to a week. The first couple days walking is incredibly painful. But I have friends, who drink daily, who have had swelling in their knees to the point of needing crutches to walk.
Not all honey is created of the same quality. In fact, a lot of honey sold in American supermarkets is fake and has been heavily modified. The honey you will buy in retailers is not the same as raw honey, changed so it lacks the nutrients that make it so healthy.
The honey that you purchase in the store is not the same as unfiltered raw honey straight from beekeeper. In fact, it’s thought that 76% of honey sold in American supermarkets is mislabelled. Many honey brands modify their products, eliminating the nutrients that make authentic, pure honey so healthy. Here are some red flags to look out for when buying honey:
Similar issue to people objecting to financial services regulators, really: some folk are instinctively so opposed to the principle of “regulation” that they’d rather take what others would consider horrendous and completely unnecessary risks than allow any body they imagine (often wrongly) to be “governmental” to restrict anyone’s freedom.
While at the grocery store, I actually checked out the honey section. Each bottle’s ingredients say: honey.
But some have a more specific label. On the front label, some of them just say ¨honey¨. But others, the more expensive ones, say ¨raw honey¨ and such. I actually saw one bottle of raw honey that said it maintained the original natural enzymes.
It’s more expensive, but it’s worth it for that kind of quality. If I’m gonna spend $4 for a bottle of honey, I may as well spend $7 and get the one that still has the nutrients I’m expecting from honey.