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14. tempting to let this rest

...but it may or may not be due to gluttony.

Much of the cause for an increasing number affected, including Manafort, may be genetics.


Slate:

...Manafort’s gout is not necessarily caused by culinary gluttony. As the Guardian points out, citing a recent meta-analysis of nearly 17,000 people, eating “only lentils and muesli” doesn’t make you immune to the disease. The researchers found that eating foods that are associated with spurring gout did not have nearly much of an effect on uric acid levels as genetics. There but for the grace of a single nucleotide variation go we...