Fw: Breaking Medical News: Animal Protein Aggravates Kidney Problems

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Subject: Breaking Medical News: Animal Protein Aggravates Kidney Problems

> PCRM Breaking Medical News 3/18/03

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> Animal Protein Aggravates Kidney Problems

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> Harvard researchers report in tomorrow's ls of Internal Medicine that

high-protein diets were associated with a significant decline in kidney

function, based on observations in 1,624 women participating in the Nurses'

Health Study. The good news is that the damage was found only in those who

already had reduced kidney function at the study's outset. The bad news is

that that group included as many as one in four study volunteers, suggesting

that most people who have renal problems are unaware of that fact and do not

realize that high-protein diets may put them at risk for further

deterioration.

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> The kidney-damaging effect was seen only with animal protein. Plant

protein had no harmful effect.

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> Here is the reference:

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> Knight EL, Stampfer MJ, Hankinson SE, Spiegelman D, Curhan GC. The Impact

of Protein Intake on Renal Function Decline in Women with Normal Renal

Function or Mild Renal Insufficiency Ann Int Med 2003;138:460-7.

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