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Nutrition and Green Nephrology - not only for health but also for compensation: the water footprint and its hamburger equivalent

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Key takeaways

This is a discussion piece about food choices in kidney care and how much water it takes to produce them. It compares that water use to the water behind one hamburger. It is about the environment more than about slowing kidney disease. It reports no new study results.

Who did this work

Giorgina Barbara Piccoli (Centre Hospitalier du Mans) · Nava Julia (Mexican Social Security Institute) · Romano-Andrioni Barbara (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona) · Arias-Guillén Marta (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona) · De Martino Federica (National Patient Safety Foundation) · Speller Junelle (National Patient Safety Foundation) · Massimo Torreggiani (Centre Hospitalier du Mans) · D'Alessandro Claudia (University of Pisa) · Carla María Avesani (Karolinska Institutet)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-14
https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfag320