Posted on 08/07/2023 10:45:57 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Between 7% and 15% of people in North America, between 5% and 9% of people in Europe, and between 1% and 5% of people in Asia suffer from kidney stones.
Now, a study has shown for the first time that an elevated consumption of added sugars should probably be added to the list of risk factors for kidney stones.
Yin et al. analyzed epidemiological data on 28,303 adult women and men, collected between 2007 to 2018 within the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
The researchers adjusted the odds of developing kidney stones per year during the trial for a range of explanatory factors.
At the start of the study, participants with a higher intake of added sugar tended to have a higher current prevalence of kidney stones, a lower HEI score, and a lower education level. The overall mean intake of added sugars was 272.1 calories per day, which corresponds to 13.2% of the total daily energy intake.
The researchers showed that after adjusting for these factors, the percentage of energy intake from added sugars was positively and consistently correlated with kidney stones. For example, participants whose intake of added sugars was among the 25% highest in the population had 39% greater odds of developing kidney stones over the course of the study.
Similarly, participants who derived more than 25% of their total energy from added sugars had a 88% greater odds than those who derived less than 5% of their total energy from added sugars.
The mechanisms of the relation between consuming more added sugars and a greater risk of developing kidney stones is not yet known. Because this was an uncontrolled observational trial, it can't yet be ruled out that unknown confounding factors might drive this association.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Regardless, it’s not healthy, for a variety of reasons, to have added sugars, unless you are active enough to generally burn them off.
Somehow, someway, they are determined to make life miserable for the rest of us.......................Eat bugs, and weeds and be happy...............
I’m probably very above-average in activity since I own a farm. I suddenly started to develop kidney stones when I turned 67. Nobody could tell me why. All the doctors ever did was tell me to drink more water, and suggest invasive surgery.
After trusting the doctors, I had stones removed from my bladder that I couldn’t even feel, and didn’t even know were there. I will never subject myself to that ordeal again. Thank God my daughter is a nurse, and just leave it at that.
After drinking enough water to float a battleship, I eventually chalked it up to too much oxalate, and started cutting back on foods that are high in oxalate. So, I took chocolate and spinach out of my diet. (This was hard to do as I was a chocolate fanatic, and also ate a lot of spinach.) After doing this, four tablespoons of apple cider vinegar a day, and constantly drinking a lot of water and clear fluids, I can at least hold the stones down to a size that can easily be passed.
You would think that with 21st century medicine and putting a man on the moon they could figure out how to prevent kidney/bladder stones.
Sticker burrs.
Kidney stones?? They’re a real pisser.
Everyone should eat rocks and twigs and live in caves if not occupied first by a bear.
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