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Skriven 2009-07-05 14:03:16 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: RE: Kidney Diets
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Hey Dave!
-> 
->  JW> More fluids of all kinds, more often; avoid dehydration. (A side
->  JW> benefit is less constipation, hemorrhoid relief). Plain water is
->  JW> best. Less coffee, less black tea but green and herbal teas with
->  JW> lemon is OK. And beer is fine, hence my jokes about free medicinal
->  JW> beer prescriptions.
-> 
-> I already do copious amounts of water ... and lemonade w/artificial 
sweetener.
-> Have cut my coffee consumption back to three cups in the morning and 
very
-> little tea - some, but not much. I'll drink the semi-occasional brewski but,
-> other than whilst attending echo picnics if I do more than six beers per 
year
-> I've been on a toot.   Bv)= 
->
Same here, I drink most of my 
yearly beer quota when Michael 
is present. 
 
-> I also drink cranberry juice three or four times per week - and would do
-> grapefruit juice (a litre or more per day) if it weren't verboten with my 
blood
-> pressure meds. I likes grapefruit juice. 
->
I like grapefruit juice too, and like you
no longer get to enjoy it. Don't care so 
much for crankleberrys so I do water.
  
->  JW> More lemon and lime juice or vinegar (which can also mean less salt
->  JW> in many foods as an additional benefit.)
-> 
-> Already do that ... my favourite steak addition at table is fresh ground 
black
-> pepper and fresh squoze lemon juice. 
->
Mine is just pepper.
  
->  JW> Less fatty dairy and animal proteins (much like a gout diet).
-> 
-> That makes sense as gout is a form of uric acid poisoning. I will discuss 
diet
-> with the urologist when I go for my appointment this upcoming Wednesday.
-> 
->  JW> I have modified my diet accordingly, albeit modestly not
->  JW> drastically, and not suffered a second bout (yet.)
-> 
->  JW> There are two kinds of stones: calcium and uric which require
->  JW> different diets. You can learn a lot more by Googling and
->  JW> restricting the search to .edu sites.
-> 
-> No clew as to what sort mine is - other than big and painful.
-> 
I have only had one bout with kidney stones..
and it was enough to convince me that I don't
want a second bout! Good luck on your boulder, 
hope it doesn't require drastic measures.
chat with you soon
hap 
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