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Kidney disease sees 16% increase in U.S.

Posted on Mar 4th 2007 10:48AM by Brian White
It's quite something to read that kidney disease in the U.S. has risen by 16% recently, but in retrospect, it's not hard to see why. The kidney is the master filter for the body (thank goodness we have two of them), so all garbage the body takes in is hopefully screened by the kidneys then flushed out of the body using -- well, you know.

I'm not sure even master designs like the human kidney can stand up to the onslaught of chemically-enhanced foods and beverages that the typical American consumes each and every day, though. The body was not designed to process nutritionally-deficient food like what many of us eat these days, so how can we expect the kidneys to function at optimum levels?

I'm no fan of renal complications or kidney transplants, but perhaps some citizens are.

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