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Home > Health High-Protein, Low-Carb Diet Safe for Kidneys June 1, 2012 By MIKAELA CONLEY Mikaela Conley More from Mikaela » Health Reporter via GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS For decades, medical experts have been concerned that high-protein, low-carb diets like Atkins could be damaging to the kidneys, but a new study found that this isn't the case in otherwise healthy patients. Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine compared the effects of such a diet to that of a standard low-fat diet in 307 obese people who did not suffer from kidney disease or other chronic illnesses. After a two-year period, they found that the high-protein, low-carb diet didn't cause noticeable harmful effects on healthy obese patients' kidney function compared to obese people who followed a low-fat diet. "Despite decades of concerns about low-carb, high-protein diets that may cause kidney damage in healthy people, there were no signs that this would be the case after a 2-year period," said Dr. Allon Friedman, lead author of the study, published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

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