Hello everyone, I want to show you an article I read these days on Corriere.it.
I found it very interesting and should also make us think ...
not only salt, even the sugary drinks are bad for kidneys
Two or more cans a day surely accelerate the deterioration of the kidneys, but only if the drinks are not a simple sugar and artificial sweeteners
-In English, they seem almost a cartoon duo: sodium and soda. But with them there is nothing to laugh: I am the salt and sugary drinks, that the long list of damage caused to our health now have to add the latest suspect, ventilated by two studies presented at the last congress of ' American Society of Nephrology in San Diego. According to the new indictment would be liable for damage the kidneys in the long run.
WOMEN - The two studies come from Julie Lin and Gary Curhan, two researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who reviewed the data of about 3 thousand women followed for 11 years in the Nurses Health Study, to see if there was an association between certain dietary habits and the occurrence of kidney damage. The first of two studies militates against the salt: who had a diet high in sodium saw a more marked decline, and early kidney function than women who ate little salty. The second point the finger on sugary drinks and tried to correlate the state of health of the kidneys to the consumption of beverages sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Even here, the net result and sentence for drink two or more cans a day surely accelerate the deterioration of the kidneys, but only if the drink there are no simple sugar and artificial sweeteners. The association persists dangerous while taking into account many factors that might somehow "pollute" the data, the age at occurrence of diseases such as hypertension or diabetes.
EVIDENCE - If it is understandable to assume that too much salt to the kidneys hurt, if only through intermediaries, high blood pressure, is less easy to explain the association between sweeteners and kidney damage. Although, strictly speaking, is not the first Once the so-called "soft drinks" are put on trial for their effects on the kidneys: one year ago the journal PLoS One published study that going to review the data of more than 12 000 participants of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1999-2004), showed a correlation between the consumption of sugary drinks and albuminuria, or the presence of protein in urine is a clear sign of kidney function that creaks. Even then the risk increases with cans of drinks (other than formulas, "diet"), reaching a double with more than two drinks per day, but this occurred only in women and especially those who was not too overweight women who love sweet drinks with a body mass index of less than 25 the probability of finding protein in the urine was more than double.
CASE - As for the reasons that could explain these data, however, is not that a confusion of hypotheses. Perhaps the fault of too much sugar in himself, sugary drinks do not have many nutrients, but instead can be, in some cases, the real "sweet bombs." Some people held responsible instead of corn syrup high in fructose, which is as a sweetener in many products, and who remembers that some time ago, that contained this syrup in drinks, they had found traces of mercury. Do not miss the charge to aspartame: even after the suspects in England at this time, is starting a study that aims to assess hundreds of volunteers on the disorders that can actually hit those who define themselves as susceptible to this sweetener . Hard to say who's right or where is the real cause of the association between soft drinks and kidney damage, because research studies of PLoS One and only show in San Diego are the only cases in which researchers have taken the trouble to go to see the relationship between cans and kidney health, the fact is that more and more aficionados of the can, even in our country, and are growing well in cases of renal failure. Try to understand between these two data if there is a connection, then, might not be so useless
