Want to avoid painful kidney stones? Cut back on sugary sugary drinks and foods, a new study suggests.
suggests even less – no more than 100 calories per day for women and 150 calories per day for men.
The 25% of people who ate the least added sugar and who had the lowest rate of developing kidney stones ate, on average, 58 added calories of sugar, while the 25% of people in the study who ate the most sugar and had the highest rate of developing kidney stones ate, on average, 542 calories of added sugar. A 12-ounce can of Mountain Dew soda has about 176 calories' worth of added sugar, and an entire pint of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream typically has more than 300 calories' worth.
Among the 25% of people in the study who ate the least added sugar, 9.6% of them had kidney stones during the 11-year study period. That’s compared to the 25% of people in the study who ate the most added sugar, of whom 11.7% had kidney stones. That increase in kidney stone prevalence translates to an increased risk of 39%, the researchers said.
“Ours is the first study to report an association between added sugar consumption and kidney stones,” said researcher Shan Yin, MD, of Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College in Nanchong, China, in journalShow Sources: “Association between added sugars and kidney stones in U.S. adults: data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007–2018.”News release,© 2023 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
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