Kidney Exhaustion

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Kidney exhaustion is a term that describes a decline in kidney function. It is linked to a diet high in sodium and artificially sweetened drinks. This is according to two papers being presented at the American Society of Nephorology’s annual meeting in San Diego, California.

Julie Lin MD, MPH, FASN and Gary Curhan, MD, ScD, FASN of Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied more than 3,000 women participating in the Nurses’ Health Study to identify the impact of sodium and sweetened drinks on kidney function.  “There are currently limited data on the role of diet in kidney disease,” said Dr. Lin. “While more study is needed, our research suggests that higher sodium and artificially sweetened soda intake are associated with greater rate of decline in kidney function.”

All it takes is two or more diet sodas a day to double the risk of kidney function decline. Recent studies, showed that women who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a 30% drop in kidney function. “Thirty percent is considered significant” says researcher Julie Lin, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a staff physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The participants in the study had well-preserved Kidney function at the start of the study. The median age of the study participants was 67.

The research group looked at the cumulative average beverage intake, from food questionnaires completed in 1984, 1986, and 1990. The women in the study answered how many times they drank the beverages. Anywhere from less than once a month, one to four times a month, two to six times weekly, once daily but less that twice, or twice a day or more were what was asked. Then they compared kidney function of the women in 1989 and 2000. What they found was that 11.4% or 372 women had a kidney function decline of 30% or more with drinking two or more artificially sweetened sodas a day.

All other factors such as age, high blood pressure, diabetes, and physical activity were taken into account. Most researches know that a high sodium intake is hard on the kidneys. Some 20 million Americans have evidence of chronic kidney disease, and kidney disease diagnoses have doubled.

Now if a herb had this sort of adverse affect it would be pulled from the market. In the world of big business, we ask the senior vice president of science policy for the American Beverage Association to review the study finding. So Maureen Storey, senior vice president said in a prepared statement “Its important to remember that this is an abstract presented at an annual meeting.” It needs further scrutiny by researches.

She allowed that kidney disease is serious but that diabetes and high blood pressure account for the majority of kidney disease cases, “not consumption of diet soda.”  To even try to answer this is will be a waste of time. The ingredients in diet soda are toxic. There is nothing in it that resembles nutrition to vitalize and energize our cells.

It is true that the participants were older and might have been consuming diet drinks over a long period of time. The ticking time bomb is in our children’s systems, they are starting at a much younger age to cosumne these substances. The call is for more studies that depend on more than questionnaires. Lets spend more time and money on studies to reassure those that drink the chemical concoction, that they can do it with impunity.

The facts are that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has listed Kidney disease on the top 10 list for disease that take the most lives. It is know that kidney disease plays a major role in hypertension and diabetes. Diet soda not only affects kidney function it has been implicated in many conditions.

What is important to note this was an 11 year study of more than 3,000 women participants of the Nurses Health study. We have a disease that kills people every year. Kidney disease accounts for a large portion of hospitalizations. What we need to know is that kidney exhaustion is another way of saying that the kidneys do not have the reserves to work properly. Weaker kidneys means weaker immunity, the only thing that is smart to do is to create a healthier lifestyle. It is a threat to a country already experiencing an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and auto-immune disease. Artificial sweeteners has been implicated in many of these conditions. We do not need more proof we need these substances banned.

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