Throw No Stones: How to Prevent Calcium Oxalate Renal Stones
Current Sports Medicine Reports, September/October 2010 - Volume 9 - Issue 5 - pp 260-261
doi: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181f19367 PMID: 20827088
There was no abstract, just a snippit of interest via Google Scholar
“the incidence of renal stones is increased 20-fold in Israeli life- guards”
Was that due to water loss, not drinking enough fluids, too much vitamin D, not using the restroom often enough, or ???
Risk factors listed at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/k/kidney_stones/riskfactors.htm
- Family history of kidney stones
- Sedentary occupations
- Lack of physical activity
- Hypercalcuria
- Acidic urine
- Alkaline urine
- Reduced urine
- Too little water
- Excessive sweating
- Gout
- Kidney infections
- Vitamin A deficiency
- Overactive parathyroid gland
Specific Lifestyle Factors from http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/yourhealth/healthgate/getcontent.asp?URLhealthgate=%2219718.html%22
- Diet rich in meat, sodium, oxalate, and tomatoes
- Low fluid intake
- Increased fluid loss in hot weather
- High intake of grapefruit juice
- Dehydration
- Long periods of inactivity
- Being overweight
- Fasting