Preventing Kidney Failure Through Diet
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-07-13

Given how vascular our kidneys are, it should comes as no surprise that animal protein, animal fat, and cholesterol are associated with declining kidney function (microalbuminurea—loss of protein in the urine), which can be an early warning sign for not only kidney failure, but also heart disease and a shortened lifespan. The references to the other organs affected by atherosclerosis can be explored in Cholesterol and Female Sexual Dysfunction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-and-female-sexual-dysfunction/), Cholesterol and Lower Back Pain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-and-lower-back-pain/), Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Ticking Time Balloons (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/abdominal-aortic-aneurysms-ticking-time-balloons/), and Heart Attacks and Cholesterol: Purely a Question of Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-attacks-and-cholesterol-purely-a-question-of-diet/). I have another 20 videos on Harvard studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/harvard/), 19 that cover kidney health (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/kidney-health/), and hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects at http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/.

On Monday I'll address the method of Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-kidney-failure-through-diet).

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