>Apparently your friend has inherited a metabolism unable to process the
>nucleo-proteins found in purine rich foods. Organ meats, red meat, dark
>poultry meat, darker fleshed fish, asparagus and spinach are all high
in
>purines.

I forgot to say before ... it's not just metabolism.  I was told that
the drug hydrocortothiazide I was taking at the time of the gout attack
was actually causing the problem.  I never had to worry about gout after
I stopped taking that drug.

Patty