Recent advances in the study on renal physiology have brought the changes in the principal consideration in dietary treatment. Classic diet has been arranged for the purpose to save the work of the kidney, while the hypothesis of that such diet would reduce the energy in the transport system in tubular cells was denied. Principle of modern dietary treatment should be based on the metabolic point of view, which would be disturbed in many phases in kidney diseases. Analysis of balance study on water, sodium, potassium and nitrogen, and the observation on the effect of diet on it, will offer the basic knowledge for the mode of the dietary treatment in kidney diseases. Furthermore, studies of the influence of fat intake on the serum lipoprotein and renal function will be necessary, particularly in the treatment of nephrotic syndrome.
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