A good reason to eat tofu sparingly

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Or else drink more water with it.
Doctors remove 420 kidney stones 'caused by excessive TOFU'

DOCTORS were forced to remove 420 kidney stones with forceps during surgery that lasted more than two hours.



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Man had 420 kidney stones removedThe man and surgeons blamed his incredibly high protein tofu diet for his poor health. The 55-year-old had surgery on his left kidney at Dongyang People's Hospital in East China.

He was suffering incredible abdominal pain and a CT scan revealed he had the stones.

Dr Wei Yubin explained: "Soy products, especially gypsum tofu, are very high in calcium, the excess of which cannot be excreted from body without a sufficient intake of water."

Medical records showed that some of the stones had been diagnosed several years ago but he had chosen to do nothing about the condition.

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The man and surgeons blamed his tofu diet

The Shanghaiist reports that the patient had 10 stones removed 20 years ago using lithotripsy, a medical procedure that destroys kidney stones.
But this time, the doctors removed the 420 stones one at a time with forceps.

"The operation almost took two hours. We spent 45 minutes just taking out the tiny stones. After the operation, my hands and legs were both numb."
Manual worker He, 55, who is from Jinhua city says he doesn’t like drinking water, but has been ordered to change his eating habits.

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Thanks for info DW I used to use Soy milk as I preferred the taste to milk,however I developed many nodules in my thyroid The specialist I see explained to me that there are big ?? If soy is responsible for the thyroid problems. I have to see a specialist every 6 months to keep and eye on it , I had one biopsy which was free of any nasties.
 
Not many soy products for me these days, so no risk of kidney stones. What an awful thing. That seems like a very extreme case. Drinking plenty of water is essential no matter what.
 

If it was indeed gypsum tofu, wouldn't it be the calcium sulphate and NOT the protein that caused the stones? Otherwise, wouldn't we be seeing all these high-protein diet types like bodybuilders having problems?
 
I think you are right Phil. The excess calcium may not be excreted if there is not enough water passing through the kidneys.
Given that old people tend not to drink enough, that could be another reason to use tofu sparingly.
 
My goodness! Just when I was thinking of adding tofu to my diet, never having eaten it more than once in my life. Hmmmm, Maybe just occasionally and with plenty of water!

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Tofu doesn't like me anyway, so, no miss, no foul. I've been familiar with some negatives of it for a while now, so I marked it off my list years ago as source for protein or any nutritional benefit.
 
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