Mark went to the emergency room last night for the second time in two weeks because of a kidney stone. So I googled kidney stones, to see what caused them and to be able to make suggestions to Mark about changing his diet.
It seemed stones are formed of calcium oxalates, but limiting consumption of calcium and oxalates (chocolate, coffee, and dark green leafy vegetables) doesn't seem to necessarily reduce the incidents of stones, so I think the villain must be sodium, which is abundantly present in soda pop.
When I was reading about soda pop, I was surprised to read that there are 10 teaspoons of sugar in a 12 oz can of top, Yeccchhh.
I think sodium is a preservative and "flavor enhancer". There's a lot of it in soups and other canned foods. People with heart problems have to watch out for high sodium contents.
Anybody know more about sodium in foods?
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