Not more than 20 years ago Gout was a disease caused by what you ate, the only problem was that wasn't true. It turns out its not red wine and red meat that causes Gout, its metabolic and mostly genetic in nature. You can make it subtly worse with foods that break down to high amounts of Uric acid in the body but people who suffer with it have a metabolic issue they can nothing about and need drugs to manage it.

We look for correlations with food until we truly understand what is going on with diseases and their true triggers and "cures". It feels like something is being done when someone says "you should be eating healthier", like in some way that has an impact on the disease. Alas it doesn't, it is infact just another way in which people treat others with prejudice, its all part of the fat shaming culture. If you have cancer its your fault, and if you die from it you didn't fight hard enough. People are often cruel to each other and make stuff up in the absence of the facts.