Sugar

You thought gout was a disease for middle-aged men who binge on beer and seafood. Think again. Young, fit, sober people are flocking to clinics with debilitating joint pain—and the culprit isn’t purines. It’s the fructose hiding in your ‘healthy’ fruit teas and energy drinks. Here is how sugar hijacks your liver, clogs your kidneys, and what you can do to reverse it.