AVOIDING THE PAIN OF KIDNEY STONES I was talking with an acquaintance  this week who mentioned he’d just gotten rid of a kidney stone.  He said the pain was excruciating as the stone slowly passed through his plumbing and out of his body.  Hopefully, you like I, have never experienced the agony of kidney stones and perhaps with a bit of precaution we never will. I went to my usual sources and found this informative October 2013 article from Harvard Medical School, How to Prevent Kidney Stones.  Here are excerpts: Preventing kidney stones is not complicated, but it does take...