Fitness Helps With Kidney Disease. Part 3 of 3

Women who engage in regular physical activity also likely have other healthy habits that help lower their risk for kidney stones. “Nevertheless, conservative counseling for patients with stones often centers almost exclusively on diet, stressing increased liquid intake, normal dietary calcium, lower sodium, moderate protein and reduced dietary oxalate,” Lieske wrote in a review editorial accompanying the study.

The results of this study suggest that a recommendation for moderate physical activity might reasonably be added to the mix. The study did not, however, prove a cause-and-effect interdependence between exercise and decreased risk for kidney stones. It showed only an association between the two in a small portion of the population. Each year in the United States, more than 300000 people go to emergency rooms for kidney stone problems look at this. Larger stones can get stuck in the urinary area and block the flow of urine, causing severe pain or bleeding.

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