: About Me

I'm David. I love life. I'm definitely a hippy. I enjoy trail-running more than I enjoy people much of the time. Though, I do love people. I like being outdoors, the pottery wheel, and pizza. I absolutely adore music, especially folk-rock and classical, along with my favorite band, Radiohead. I am currently a high school senior and I love english. I dislike history, hardcore jocks, extreme conservatives, and violence. People may say I am a GenX teen, but I think I fit in more with a 60's radical.

I joined Helium because I wanted to improve my technical/non-fiction writing skills and just have a blast writing about my passions. I need literary outlet at the moment, and this is it!

My passion is ...

trail-running

I know too much about ...

psycology

My parents always told me ...

I was eccentric

My childhood ambition ...

to have a wide variety of friends

My favorite memory ...

the two-week trip out west with my father

Why I write ...

to improve and to have a blast!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the Rolling Stones and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

My first job ...

local newspaper carrier

My best moment ...

being introduced to my third ex-girlfriend

My inspiration ...

the sun, the stars, the sky!

Health & Fitness > Disease (Other) What are the risk factors for gout?

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Gout is caused by the build-up of uric acid crystals in joints, especially larger joints that have very little cartilage left or are arthritic. Gout can even cause a form of arthritis. It is extremely painful and stiffens joints, always due to sudden, massive inflammation. Gout was once called "the king's disease." More aptly named now, but the root cause of this archaic name was the observation that only the overindulgent and rich suffered from gout long ago. These earlier gout-researchers realized that eating red meats, fish, beans, and other foods high in purines is a cause of gout. Thi...

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