06.19.2008 3:34 pm
How sweet gout aren’t
Researchers have found that the more fructose, a common soft-drink sweetener, that men drink, the higher their chances of getting gout. Ouch! Meanwhile those who drank unsweetened tea had a lower incidence of the painful foot issue. Read more about it here at RealAge.com.



Cindy Billhartz Gregorian is a features reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has reported for the Healthy & Fit section since it's very first issue five years ago. She's a distance runner with six marathons under her belt.