"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Posted on 04/03/2015 2:55:08 AM PDT by grundle
NEW YORK – Doctors traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day.
They ruled out several potential causes before stumbling on a reason for the 56-year-old man's kidney problems. He said he drank about 16 8-ounce cups of iced tea every day. Black tea has a chemical known to cause kidney stones or even kidney failure in excessive amounts.
"It was the only reasonable explanation," said Dr. Umbar Ghaffar of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. She and two other doctors describe the case in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
The unidentified man went to the hospital last May with nausea, weakness, fatigue and body aches. Doctors determined his kidneys were badly clogged and inflamed by the food chemical called oxalate. The man is on dialysis, perhaps for the rest of his life, Ghaffar said.
Besides black tea, oxalate is found in spinach, rhubarb, nuts, wheat bran and chocolate. In rare cases, too much oxalate can lead to kidney trouble, but often there's also a contributing intestinal problem. That didn't seem to be the case for the Arkansas man, and he had no family or personal history of kidney disease.
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That means MILK CHOCOLATE is safe!!!
yay
Also epidemics of kidney disease in South America where they have been using glyphosate.
The glyphosate-binds with heavy metals (it's original design/use was to descale mineral deposits from pipes and boilers) reaches the kidney tubules, where the high acidity allows the metal to break free of the glyphosate. The metals then damage the kidneys.
That sounds interesting.
Would that not make a huge difference in the story? Unsweetened tea has some caffeine, but not much else. However, if he’s chuggin southern style sweet tea, he’s gonna have a reaction to the sugar overload.
Yes, you’re right. The reporter should have asked him if he put sugar in his tea. That being said, the average American eats lots of sugar, regardless of whether or not it’s in the form of tea.
The only safe beverage is beer.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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