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Old 02-27-2006   #30
Black97civic
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Re: My arms feel like they've been detached from my body

yeah, back in the day people didn't know as much as they do now, and followed really bad diets/theories. If you followed plans from the 80's you are lucky if all you have is bad kidneys. Some people ate as much as 10,000 calories a day to bulk, even though it has been shown that at the most 5000 calories a day will work for 99.999% of people.

Once again, enough water, and your body can filter almost anything.

Just so you don't think I'm running my mouth, I have researched a little bit.

From http://www.benbest.com/health/kidney.html

Studies on human subjects (usually without distinguishing the type of protein) indicate that the effects of dietary protein are minimal in nondiabetic patients with no renal injury, but that protein restriction is beneficial for patients with chronic renal failure [AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES 31(6):1048-1049 (1998) and INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICAL ORGANS 20(6):304-308 (1997)]. Most, if not all, of the benefit from low protein diets is attributed to reduction in phosphates, sodium and acid [KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL; Mitch,WE; 57(Suppl.75):S38-S43 (2000)].

Obviously this is just one source, but I can't count the number of sites that agree with it.

Last edited by Blue89Quest; 02-27-2006 at 11:42 PM..
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