You are giving advice on human nutrition and disease based on a "pilot study" (as its authors have identified it) of 13 men in South Africa. Your source for information on this 2000 article is Health and Age, "sponsored by Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications."
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Wifezilla, that site also published a "How to eat if you have gout" webpage where they advise: "Restriction of purine intake, Meat and meat products: consume only 1 - 3 portions per week (80 - 120 g)."
Let's leave aside the fact that the Greek military took control of Egypt and occupied it...
I'm probably off on the issue of excess calcium and gout but it relates to excess protein on the margins. And, I suppose, to excess just-about-anything.
DeKalb hatcheries has the same story on Urolithiasis (Gout). They recount specific management mistakes that led to kidney damage in pullets...
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Dr. Bernie Beckman, Hy-Line International (don't do this to our chicks)
"When pullets sexually mature, they are placed on higher calcium diets to meet the demands of egg production. . .
"Excess dietary calcium fed to immature pullets over a period of time will result in kidney damage...
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My guess is that he was crippled by gout from too much calcium in the layer feed. It is 5 or 6 times higher in calcium than starter.
How old were the chicks when they went on layer feed?
We are only 14 weeks out from Thanksgiving right now. And only 9 weeks out from New Years. The...