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Kidney Disease
Death Of Black America, Vol. 1
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The kidneys remove undesirable substances from blood plasma (the liquid part) such as toxins metabolic wastes excess ingested water, and excess mineral salts. The kidneys also regulate the acidity of the blood by excreting alkaline salts. They filter about 150 quarts of blood plasma a day. The kidneys recycle minerals, eliminate waste from the body, trigger blood and bone formation, and stabilize electrolytes.

Kidney Stones

Kidney stones are crystallized waste. This waste has not been broken down (catabolized) by the body properly and filtered by the kidneys). The kidney is like a filter, which works by water pressure. If the pressure is unstable due to high or low blood pressure or the diet of junk foods it affects the kidneys. Both of these effects can cause kidney stones.

Hypertension In Kidney Disease

Hypertension causes unwanted changes in the arterial blood vessels which are the vessels that route blood from the heart to the rest of the body.  Like the rest of the arteries, those supplying blood to the kidneys are more rigid than normal.  This increased pressure forces certain proteins into the filtering system housed in the nephrons which are the key units of the kidney. Under normal conditions the proteins would not get inside the nephrons; but when they do, the body's immune system treats them as "unfriendly" and mounts an attack against them. This immune response causes destruction of the normal nephron.  Keeping the blood pressure in the normal range-through diet, exercise, relaxation, and medication-can significantly reduce the risk of damage to the nephrons.

Diet And Kidney Disease

One way to significantly reduce the risk of developing kidney disease is to maintain a healthy diet.  For example, a diet rich in red meat-which means a diet that has high levels of protein-can harm the kidneys.  When the liver processes this protein it sends smaller proteins back into the circulation and eventually they end up having to be filtered by the kidneys.  This accumulation of protein in the kidneys overloads the body and causes an immune response like the one mentioned above.  Therefore, keeping the amount of red meat in the diet at a low level helps reduce kidney damage.

Diabetes and Kidney Disease

In 1998, approximately 4 out of every 100 African Americans were diagnosed with diabetes.  Today, the number of diabetics in African Americans is double that of white Americans.  Diabetes accelerates hardening of the arteries and in turn is associated with high blood pressure, strokes, and kidney disease.  There are now simple tests to determine if an individual has diabetes and many forms of treatment that will prolong a productive life.  To learn more about diabetes, click here.

The Kidneys: A Unique Filtering System

In addition to skin, muscle and bones, the body consists of many complex organs that work together to keep us functioning normally.  Several of these organs perform "housekeeping" functions that ridding the body of wastes and toxins that could make us very sick if they were not constantly cleared out of our systems.  The kidneys, located near the middle of the back and just below the rib cage, play this role by removing harmful wastes that accumulate in the blood.  They also remove excess water and sodium. (The end product of all this filtering and removal is the fluid known as urine.)

Day in and day out, these bean-shaped organs (each about the size of your fist) process the equivalent of roughly 200 quarts of blood in order to remove 2 quarts of waste products and extra water.  For more on how the kidneys work, click here. The entire process relies on a complex filtering system housed inside the kidneys. The key unit of this system is the nephron, a tiny structure made up of an intricate web of intertwined capillaries (tiny blood vessels), tubules (one of several nephron filtering components), and other structures.  It is this system that, in addition to performing crucial filtering functions, removes wastes from the blood.

For more information:
For treatment and diet instructions order the "Eating to Die" DVD or the book African Holistic Health. For diet order the "Crossover Diet Cookbook."

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