Re: RoseMarie - some more info about kidney stones/failure and low carbing

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Hi, to add to this, was reading in Weston Price Foundation website about vitamin

A. Seems low level of A can lead to kidney stones. The A helps the calcium to

work well, as well as D helps the A, etc.

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> Hi RoseMarie

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> I know that the folk that conduct the ketogenic diets with the children with

epilepsy do claim they have to watch out for kidney problems with the ketogenic

diet, but it appears more recently this has been less of a problem for them,

presumably because they now supplement with potassium

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> Another thing that I ahev been thinking about but not yet found evidence of,

is that on that diet they allow a lot of processed foods and vegetable oil

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> On bees diet we do not eat processed foods and only certain plant based oils

which must be virgin. This would i think have an influence on the kidney stone

problem, like it does with everything else.

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> Anyway so far I havve only fould a small amount of independent evidence

regarding all this but i will keep looking

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> This article below, believe it or not, claims the very opposite to the usual

claim that low carb diets can induce kidney problems. This articla actually says

low carbing is by far better for folk with any kind of kidney trouble

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> My gut feeling is that this article is correct. Mainly because experience has

showed me that all my organs work better and have less disease when i am in

ketosis, so why would the kidneys be any different

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> Anyway, I am not a doctor I can only give my view, but the evidence here is

quit compelling

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> http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/kidney.html

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> Love Joanne

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