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Truth About Urine  What do urine color and odor changes mean?
How often should you 'go'? Find out.  By Stephanie Watson WebMD
Feature  Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD   "Urine and urinalysis
have, for hundreds of years, been one of the ways physicians
have looked at health," says Tomas Griebling, MD, MPH, vice
chair of the urology department at the University of Kansas.
"From a historical view, urinalysis was one of the original
windows into what's happening in the body," Griebling says.
That's because many of the substances circulating in your body,
including bacteria, yeast, excess protein and sugar, eventually
make their way into the urine.  Urine is an important part of
the body's disposal process. Its job is to remove the extra
water and water-soluble wastes the kidneys filter out of the
blood. "The urine is there primarily to get rid of toxins or
things that would otherwise build up in the body that would be
bad for the body," says Anthony Sm