Is a meat diet injurious in cases of kid­ney disease?

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Meat in Kidney Disease

Q. Is a meat diet injurious in cases of kid­ney disease?

A. The well-known experiments of Lehman show beyond question that the use of flesh foods requires more work of the kidneys than a vegetable diet. When living on an exclusively animal diet he found that the amount of urea eliminated by the kidneys was two and one-half times as much as when the diet was exclusively vegetable, and one and a half times as much when he partook of both animal and vegetable food.

This shows beyond question that when the diet is exclusively animal, the kidneys have more than double the amount of work to do than when it is vegetable. This excessive work must inevitably tend to the production of kidney disease, which is becoming a very common af­fection among the English and Americans, who, as is well known, eat more animal food than any other civilized nation.

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