When a particular eating plan becomes super popular all of a sudden, it's worth looking at with skeptical eyes. After all, plenty of diets that started out as legitimate, expert-backed plans designed ...

I have a long history of calcium oxalate kidney and bladder stones. My urologist recently recommended a low-oxalate diet to mitigate stone recurrence. Unfortunately, the diet is so restrictive that I ...

A low-oxalate diet can help prevent kidney stones. Eat foods like asparagus, apples, and chicken to stay low in oxalates. Drink plenty of water to help flush out excess calcium and uric acid. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For those of us who have heard of oxalates (the so-called “anti-nutrients” in some plants that can block mineral absorption), the ...

Roughly 1 in 10 people will have kidney stones in their lifetime. And, according to the National Kidney Foundation, those numbers are on the rise. These painful stones form when crystal-forming ...

In the bid to stay healthy, we sometimes do things that harm us unknowingly. Sometime last year, someone sent me a recipe that included the use of raw spinach in juicing. Spinach is one vegetable that ...

I received a call from a reader who expressed disappointment over a statement I made in my article titled Wonders of Nature: My Personal Experience. In that piece, I wrote, “This is not in any way a ...