Upon researching on the disease, I found out a lot of things about gout. I was fairly satisfied with its description in the popular Encarta Encyclopedia. It says that Gout is a disease that afflicts mostly men, because 95 percent of the sufferers are men. However, people aged under 30 is rarely afflicted with it. The disease is characterized by severe joint pain that results from high levels of uric acid produced in the body. This faulty metabolism of uric acid may possibly be cause by a diet rich in proteins. It’s a treatable disease, though, and there many gout cures proven to be effective. Many people choose to do it the natural way, and natural gout cures include eating a significant amount of cherries and mixing charcoal with water and putting it in the affected joints. The Consumption of a considerable amount of water and living a low-protein eating lifestyle can are also effective gout cures, because all these reduce uric acid content in the body.