Susan,
You need a new acquaintance.  Protein is used for repair and fat for energy.
Just keep up with your veggies, drink your water and you'll do fine.

http://atkins.com/science/researchsummaries/kidneys.html  info on kidneys
......  from Atkins site......

http://www.dfhi.com/interviews/rosedale.html   There's a little bit of
everything in Rosedale's article.....  Oliva
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Wolf Sternberg" <[log in to unmask]>

 Today I was told by a nutritionist acquaintance
that perhaps I should not be eating this way because of the one kidney, and
that higher protein and low carb will cause the kidney to work harder, and
could damage it.  She says that with low carb unless I am an athelete, my
body
will not burn fat as fuel, but rather will burn protein, and the nitrogen
waste
from the protein that is excretd will be hard on my kidney.  I am under the
impression from what I have read that my body burns fat for fuel, but she
says
no, that it burns the protein.