A higher intake of calcium--contrar...

A higher intake of calcium--contrary to conventional wisdom--prevents kidney stones, according to a research published in the April 26 2004 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Despite studies suggesting calcium's benefits, physicians routinely praise low-calcium diets for people with kidney stones based forward intuitive thinking: Since the stones are mainly calcium, less dietary calcium would contract the chance of kidney deposits.

The latest cogitation found a highly significant--27 percent--reduction in stones in women consuming the mostly calcium from food. In addition, phytate--a chemical in fiber that binds minerals--showed a stronger protective event reducing stone formation by 37 percent

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