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Tofu led to stones

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Published : Jun 29, 2015, 10:41 pm IST
Updated : Jun 29, 2015, 10:41 pm IST

Doctors at a hospital in Dongyang, China, removed 420 kidney stones from a single patient in June. One of the surgeons told reporters that a soy-heavy diet of tofu was probably to blame.

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Doctors at a hospital in Dongyang, China, removed 420 kidney stones from a single patient in June.

One of the surgeons told reporters that a soy-heavy diet of tofu was probably to blame.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the count for the most number of stones removed from one kidney during surgery — in India in 2009 in a three-hour operation — is 172,155.