by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 28, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
This may be the most important article – to me – I have written thus far. It is a plea and argument that stone patients need more from us than prevention of stones, because often enough they harbor significant diseases that associate with stone forming and...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 21, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Gary Taubes has written a substantial and important book summarizing the evidence that table sugar is a toxin. In this article, from Aeon, Taubes summarizes his thoughts and marshals the evidence in a highly readable and convincing form. Briefly, he dismisses the...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 8, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Multiple articles on this site point toward better health from reducing intakes of sodium and refined sugar. They are well referenced and well supported by scientific data. Recently Consumer Reports, an outstanding purveyor of unbiased information to US consumers has...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Andrew Evan | Aug 16, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
This is our main article on Randall’s plaque, a papillary nidus that fosters growth of calcium stones. Other articles on this site illustrate plaque, and discuss plaque as a mechanism of calcium kidney stone production. But these have used plaque as part of...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Aug 1, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
We love it. As a people Americans eat 66 pounds of added sugar a year per person. Each one of us eat that much added sugar. Yes, that much table sugar, sucrose, the bad stuff. It may be bad but I love it, passionately, and with the fondness only time can add to a...