BOY OH BOY, IF THIS ISN'T THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I'VE HEARD YET...
WELL NOW WE CAN FEEL RELIEVED, AND START EATING PEPPERS AND EGGS AGAIN....HAHAHA



Kidney Stones Tied to Global Warming
By Dan Vergano,USA Today
Posted: 2008-07-15 16:06:52
Filed Under: Health News, Science News
(July 15) -- Global warming could do more than hurt polar bears: It could force a rise in kidney stones, scientists warned Monday.

"We see a relationship between kidney stones and temperatures everywhere," says study co-author Margaret Pearle of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. "Even in places with air conditioning, warmer temperatures mean more stones."


The Health Risks of Global WarmingJeff Topping, Getty ImagesKidney Stones: Heat makes it easier to get dehydrated, and that can trigger kidney stones, painful blockages made up of crystallized salts. "Warmer temperatures mean more stones," a researcher said. Click to read about other health problems related to global warming.
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Kidney stones result from salts crystallizing in the kidneys, often triggered by dehydration, causing famously painful blockages. Nationwide, kidney stones strike about 12% of all men and 7% of women over their lifetime.

Warm southeastern states get 50% more cases than northeastern ones. The new research says global warming will drive this so-called kidney stone "belt" north triggering at least 1.6 million new cases by 2050.

The United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year warned that industrial emissions of greenhouse gases very likely would raise average global temperatures 3 to 7 degrees this century, raising risks for heat stroke and expansion of tropical diseases such as malaria.

The kidney stone finding, reported Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combines the panel's projections of higher U.S. temperatures with Medicare and Veterans Administration health records stretching from 1982 to 2005 to estimate how many extra U.S. kidney stone cases will result from global warming. The analysis predicts:

-- The cost of treating kidney stones will rise 25% by 2050, a bump of at least $900 million compared with 2000.


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More Stories-- High-risk zones will cover 56% of states by 2050 and 70% by 2095.

-- Midwestern states will take the brunt of the expansion if cases rise in straight-line fashion with temperature.

"Everyone in warmer temperatures is at higher risk for kidney stones, so the findings make perfect sense," says nephrologist David Goldfarb of New York University Medical Center, who was not part of the study. "What's so impressive about this study is how they've brought together models of warming and kidney stones for the first time."

Kidney stones have been on the rise nationwide since 1976, and studies have shown summer bumps in cases, Pearle says.

Drinking water and staying cool can limit kidney stone risks, Goldfarb says. People with a family history of kidney stones are at higher risk. "And not everyone can stay inside. We see lots of soldiers from Iraq with kidney stones," Goldfarb adds.

Believe it or not, I know several people that live in Florida, that have had several attacks of Kidney Stones, one fellow, just passed a stone and his doctor said he has at least 8 more that he can see on a X-Ray.

There could be something to this.

THE ONLY THING TO THIS, IS AL GORE AND MR. SOROS.
BASICALLY, WE HAVE TO STAY HYDRATED...HOW SHOCKING? LOL
SO BECAUSE IT'S HOT OUT, DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING, PEOPLE ARE GETTING KIDNEY STONE ATTACKS? HAHAHAHA..
ARIZONA AND NEVADA HOSPITALS MUST BE SWAMPED THEN....LOL

Once you have one you will learn how to avoid it from happening again. One of the most painful ailments we could have!
So drinkup!!!!

Global warming also causes head stones in cemeteries to start jumping and switching places, and hair follicles to shoot alfalfa sprouts out of your head...

so, what happened before the advent of airconditioning? lol.............everyone had kidney stones?

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t least 1.6 million new cases by 2050.

I doubt any of us will be here. By the way, when it's Summertime, it's usually hot, this is nothing new, you need to drink twice what you normally drink. If you're like me,and hate to drink water, then you're in deep doo doo, global warming or not.

BY THE WAY, MY NEPHEW WHO LIVES IN THE BRONX, HAS ABOUT 8 KIDNEY STONE ATTACKS A YEAR...

LOL

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AL GORE AND MR. SOROS

I wouldn't talk about Soros when you have Bob Perry funding the swift boaters

Robert J. "Bob" Perry is a Houston, Texas, homebuilder who has "helped bankroll the widespread success of Republican candidates", has "long-standing ties to many close associates" of President George W. Bush, and has "contributed to Bush's last four campaigns. According to interviews and campaign documents, he has given a total of more than $5 million to scores of political candidates," the Houston Chroncle reported in August 2004.
In the 2006 election cycle, Perry, who was the "#1 individual donor to 527 committees, donated as much as the #2, #3 and #4 on the list. That is $9,750,000 in total.

SOROS IS OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA ,THE MAN WILL GO BROKE AND DIE HAPPY IF HE SUCCEEDS .

YOU WOULD THINK THAT ,WITH PROOF UNDER OUR NOSES ,THAT A WHOLE CONTINENT LIKE EUROPE WHICH FAILED UNDER SOCIALISM , WE AMERICANS ARE STILL IN LOVE WITH THE EUROPEANS AND CAN'T WAIT TO EMULATE THEIR FAILURES.

OUR POLITICIANS TOOK A GIANT LEAP TO THE LEFT AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. DON'T BLAME BUSH. THE POOR GUY HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON, HE'S NOT RUNNING THE COUNTRY, THAT'S WHY HIS ANSWERS MAKE NO SENSE



MAMMA MIA!!!!!!

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Originally posted by LUPO:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. DON'T BLAME BUSH. THE POOR GUY HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON, HE'S NOT RUNNING THE COUNTRY, THAT'S WHY HIS ANSWERS MAKE NO SENSE MAMMA MIA!!!!!!

And this, in today's news, proves it.....

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/07/15/200...w_euro_at_recor.html


What do they feed this guy at the White House? Magic mushrooms???

Kidney stone rings are finally here. They are now making rings with kidney stones in them. In the Daily mirror, my mirror of course..lol. Kidney stones help put back the steam in lost romances that had no hope. How this works amazes me and my mirror. First comes discomfort with pain, then a lil comfort from her divorced husband, who is helping her ease the pain, then a trip to the operating room . Finally, a date to remember when he was there for her. A beautiful kidney stone ring . I think the ring would go good with an ulcer pendant…awwww..lol

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JAMESIE, YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!

LMAO.....

IT'S SOOOOOO HOT OUT, I JUST TOOK A DIP IN MY "KIDNEY SHAPED POOL"..HAHAHAHA

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Originally posted by LUPO:
SOROS IS OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA ,THE MAN WILL GO BROKE AND DIE HAPPY IF HE SUCCEEDS .

YOU WOULD THINK THAT ,WITH PROOF UNDER OUR NOSES ,THAT A WHOLE CONTINENT LIKE EUROPE WHICH FAILED UNDER SOCIALISM , WE AMERICANS ARE STILL IN LOVE WITH THE EUROPEANS AND CAN'T WAIT TO EMULATE THEIR FAILURES.

OUR POLITICIANS TOOK A GIANT LEAP TO THE LEFT AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. DON'T BLAME BUSH. THE POOR GUY HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON, HE'S NOT RUNNING THE COUNTRY, THAT'S WHY HIS ANSWERS MAKE NO SENSE



MAMMA MIA!!!!!!

Europe's currency is stronger than ours. We've just gone through 8 years of a conservative administration and the country's in the dumpster.
And you want to keep them in power?

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Europe's currency is stronger than ours. We've just gone through 8 years of a conservative administration and the country's in the dumpster.
And you want to keep them in power?

NO WE HAVEN'T GONE THROUGH 8 YRS OF CONSERVATISM. WE HAD 8 YRS OF MIDDLE OF THE ROAD COMPASSIONATE REPUBLICANS..A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE.
JFK WAS A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT


P.S. EUROPE IS HEADED FOR A WORSE RECESSION THAN WE ARE