A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children

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Dr. John C. Pope IV, an associate professor of urologic surgery and pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, said, “When we tell parents, most say they’ve never heard of a kid with a kidney stone and think something is terribly wrong with their child.”

In China recently, many children who drank milk tainted with melamine — a toxic chemical illegally added to watered-down milk to inflate the protein count — developed kidney stones.

The increase in the United States is attributed to a host of factors, including a food additive that is both legal and ubiquitous: salt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28kidn.html?ex=1382932800&en=e6b45e404f391625&ei=5124&partner=facebook&exprod=facebook

[Native]

1. Processed foods - amazing how people keep buying this crap!

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2. They mention an overconsumption of salt as a contributing factor in American kids

Most likely culprit is fast food, which is loaded in sodium.