Study finds an increase in kidney stones in Americans. About 10% of people will experience a kidney stone at some point in their lives, making it a fairly common ailment, but kidney stone cases increased by four times in women and two times in men from 1984 to 2012. Women aged 18 to 39 saw the largest increase, from 62 to 252 cases in every 100,000 participants. This extremely painful diagnosis is mostly due to genetics and is more likely to happen if a person has too much calcium in their body and does not consume enough fluids. One reason for the larger number of kidney stones found may be a large increase in the amount of CT scans performed, which is how the condition is found. However, calcium oxalate was behind about 75% of the stones discovered in this study, and oxalate is naturally found in foods like beets, chocolate, tea, and nuts – therefore things you may want to avoid if you have a genetic disposition to kidney stones or have had one in the past. The best thing you can do is drink as much as 3 quarts of water a day, ideally producing about 2 ½ quarts of urine, to flush out stones before they become a problem.

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