Joseph Michael Bay wrote:

> "Veronique" > writes:
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>>mdginzo wrote:
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>>>>I spent months checking google and Medline, which is how I know >there
>>>>isn't a single one.
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>>>>If they're so easy to find, with documented evidence, then post them.
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>>>Jesus, if you are that stupid that you cannot punch in Atkins and
>>>"kidney scarring" into a Google box then I will just dismiss you.
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>>I don't think it matters whether she can punch it in or not, as
>>everything brought up by Google is opinion in her opinion [heh]. Except
>>for her opinion that the authors of scientific studies showing a link
>>between kidney damage in diabetics and high protein diets are making up
>>conclusions rather than analyzing the data. Yet another national
>>scandal to break the surface on usenet.
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> To be fair, the study shows accelerated kidney damage at the limit
> of statistical significance (just enough correlation to say there's
> correlation); they suspect but don't demonstrate causation, although
> of course the future kidney damage can't cause someone to go on a
> high-protein diet. Also the Atkins diet is supposedly high-fat but
> not high-protein, although the Atkins company says it's high-protein.

My rather conservate nutrition text wants you to eat a gram of protein
per kilo of body weight per day; that's pretty close to the old health
food store standard of half a gram per day per pound of body weight,
minimum. The text also says that you can eat double that with no
problems at all.

I happen to know, because I keep track, that I generally get between 100
and 125 grams of protein per day. So I'm not on what that nutrition
text would consider a seriously high-protein diet.

I do, however, generally get at least 60% of my calories from fat.

Dana