Tofu led to stones

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.

Update: 2015-06-29 17:11 GMT
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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.

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