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About 60% of all kidney stone calcium oxalate, 9 % contain calcium phosphate, while about 11% contain a combination of both. Less common stone are composed of uric acid, cystine, or magnesium ammonium phosphate. A stone that blocks the flow of urine or causes infection must be removed either surgically or by sound or shock waves to break up the stone into pieces that can be easily eliminated from the body. The person who has a kidney stone may experience recurrence but reports suggest that with proper treatment, a recurrence may be prevented.

Probable Causes

- Bowel disease (causing malabsorption)
- Cystinuria
- Glucocorticoid excess
- Gout
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Immobilization
- Osteoporosis
- Paget’s disease
- Recurrent urinary tract infections
- Renal tubular acidosis
- Vitamin D intoxication (overdose)

Probable symptoms

- Mild pain. This occurs when small pieces of the stone break off and travel down with the urine through the ureters. The pain usually starts in the back, just below the ribs and follows the path of the stone. Once the stone reaches the blade the pain normally subsides.
- Severe stabbing pain, the result if the large stone enters an ureters.

Helpful Dietary Management

- Eat a diet low in sodium and low to moderate in protein plus a high fluid intake.
- Drink enough water –about 8 ½ glasses (eight ouch glass) spread within the day at regular intervals to maintain a urine volume of 2 liters per day. Maintaining a large urine volume ensures that mineral concentrations in the urine will be diluted, therefore reducing the risk of stone formation.
- Eat fresh, natural foods instead of processed canned meats.
- Avoid commercial chips and crackers.
- Reduce sodium in the diet, gradually
- Avoid tea, coffee, alcoholic and carbonated beverages
- Read labels. Sodium can be found in food, water, medicines, toothpastes, and mouthwash.

Reducing weight is very difficult to achieve but gaining weight too much easier but as we know we should more conscious about our self not only our appearance specially our health. Many of us like to have a firm and healthy body; there are ways to lose weight with out taking any pills or fasting. Just have a reducing diet plan, which follows the principle of eating foods with essentials nutrients with the goal of effecting weight loss. The diet is low in calories, low in fat but high in complex carbohydrates. Weight loss should be gradual don’t expect on the next day you can achieve your goal; it needs patience, determination and have a self-discipline. The complex carbohydrates are found in fiber-rich foods such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

Here some simple tips:
- First consult a licensed nutritionist-dietitian before trying any reduce weight. He knows when you need to reduce, how much weight you need to lose and how you should lose extra weight and what your specific nutrients needs are.
- Eat less fat. Avoid pork, fatty meat, skin, and chicharon.
- Eat only a maximum of 3 egg yolks per week.
- Chose low calorie-foods. Avoid sweet, cakes (especially those with icing), ice cream, sweet dessert, candies, pies and chocolates.
- Reduce of salty foods like dried fish and other similar foods that encourage more rice consumptions.
- Drink at least 8-glass 0f water a day between meals.
- Avoid milk shakes, chocolate drinks, soft drinks and sweeten juices.
- Avoid tea, coffee and alcohol. Alcohol drinks are high-calories beverages.
- Eat regularly. Never skips meal especially breakfast.
- Avoid in-between meals. Drink water instead.
- Choose legumes, fish, poultry, and veal, which contain less fats and cholesterol than pork and beef.
- Cook foods plainly. Avoid butter or fattening sauces.
- Eat a good breakfast and lunch but has a light supper. If you plan to skip meals, choose supper instead of breakfast.
- Exercise regularly.
- Keep a record of your weight. Weight loss of about 1 to 2 pounds a week is safe and considered reasonable.
- Determine to lose weight.

I love dark chocolate especially, the Lindt dark chocolate; it’s so good (yummy). The study shows that chocolate may be good for liver patients. Dark chocolate could be prescribed for people with liver disease like cirrhosis. Cirrhosis, by the way, is scarring of the liver. It is caused by hepatitis infection or alcohol abuse. The researchers have discovered that dark chocolate limits the after-meal rise in abdominal pressure, hence, helps and prevent liver patients from having blood vessel burst. Dark chocolate is believed to have antioxidants called flavanols, which is good for blood pressure. Flavanols help smooth muscle of the blood vessels to calm down and dilate.

Do you like ice cream, I know everyone love ice cream especially me. But did you know that no one really knows who invented ice cream. It probably was created in a number of places around the world at various times in history. Some expert believes these were popular thousand years ago. Around 200 B.C. in china packing it in snow solidified a soft mixture of milk and rice. The Roman Emperor Nero enjoyed mixture of fruit crushed with snow and honey and Alexander the Great sent runners to the mountain to bring back snow so he could have a wine-flavored ice. When Marco Polo returned to Europe from his travel, he brought with him a recipe for tasty ice and milk dessert. These desserts became popular among the rich, and royal chef’s kept working to improve the recipe. These recipes were closely guarded secrets for many years. After ice cream was introduce with the colonies, many of our country founders become ice cream addict like Thomas Jefferson, gorge Washington and Dolley Madison. The first ice cream plant was opened at United State century and half ago. The owner would never have believed that today annual ice cream sales in this country are over 3 billion.

Not all pepper is hot. Like for example paprika, pimiento and bell pepper are not hot. However, pepper such as chili, palapeno and habanero are very hot. These pepper contains capsaicin, which stimulates the nerve endings in the mouth and makes the brain believe it is experiencing true heat. Eating hot pepper can also make the eyes water and the nose run and can induce perspiration. To counteract the pain, the brain releases morphine like endorphins that create a mild euphoria, similar to a runner high because of this pepper can be slightly addictive. Pure capsaicin is so hot that if you dilute a single drop in 100,000 drops of water and then sip the water, it will blister your tongue. Another interesting trait of capsaicin is that, unlike ginger or mustard, it can desensitize one to pain if small amount are eaten repeatedly or if a large amount is eaten all at once. This is why chili lovers can eat progressively hotter peppers and foods. When you burn your mouth by eating a hot pepper, the typical reaction is to drink water or milk. This won’t help at all. Capsaicin will dissolve in water and drinking a liquid only spread the capsaicin more until your whole mouth is burning. To alleviate burning, many people recommend sour cream or yogurt because the casein in these products breaks down the bond between the capsaicin and the pain receptors in your mouth. The most effective method found to relieve the burning sensation is to take a level of spoon of sugar, moisten it with some water and then roll it around in your mouth for half minute.