Eating Fish May Lower Kidney Disease in Diabetics

Filed in archive Diet , Research on November 3, 2008

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Diabetes patients are prone to kidney disease.

Now, according to British researchers, eating Fish at least twice a week may help diabetes patients lower their risk of kidney disease.

The study subjects had answered questionnaires about their diet habits, including how much fish they ate a week, and had provided urine samples, which were analyzed for the presence of a protein called albumin, an indicator of kidney damage.

The researchers reported that of the 517 study subjects who had diabetes (most of whom had type 2), those who on average ate less than one serving of fish each week were four times more likely to have albumin in their urine than people with diabetes who ate fish twice a week.

Well eating fish regularly isn't so bad. Just think of all the health benefits, then it wouldn't be such a toll.