Renal disease can certainly be a daunting issue to live with. All of the restrictions, doctors’ visits, and potentially life threatening outcomes might feel very overwhelming, and understandably so. You do have more control over your overall health and renal disease outcome than you think, though.
Simply making necessary dietary changes and eating healthy can have a very positive affect on your renal disease. Eating healthy is a huge part of living a happy, healthy, and comfortably long life.
Here are just some of the many ways that eating healthy can positively affect your renal disease:
Comfort
One of the more noticeable effects of eating healthy with renal disease is your overall comfort levels. Eating the wrong foods, specifically the foods on your restricted list, can affect your body in very uncomfortable ways.
Bloating, fatigue, stomach issues, and pain are just some of the side effects of just eating the wrong things. You can avoid these and other issues by simply sticking to a strict diet and avoiding any of those foods on your restricted list.
Quality of Life
In fact, the healthier you eat, the more comfortable you will feel. A healthy diet in any situation changes your whole quality of life. A healthy diet promotes more energy, a healthy digestive system, and a happier outlook on life. Yes, eating healthier can make you happy and it can even give you more focus in your daily life.
A healthy and balanced diet also promotes a healthy weight, which not only helps you look better, but feel better too.
Prevent Other Health Issues
Quite often, one serious health issue will be accompanied by others. For example, many people who have renal disease are also likely to have diabetes, hypertension, anemia, and other related health problems.
By eating healthy, you can treat or outright avoid some of these issues. It is hard enough to deal with one chronic health issue, adding to it just makes things harder on yourself. A healthy diet promotes healthy blood sugar levels, is heart healthy, and makes less work for your already overworked kidneys.
Life Extending
Although the diagnosis can sound scary, especially depending on what stage you find yourself in, renal disease is not a death sentence.
Eating a healthy diet can extend the life of just about anyone, but especially people with chronic illnesses such as renal disease. Especially when combined with regular exercise and doctor’s orders regarding the appropriate medications, you can live a long and healthy life even though you have renal disease.
Avoiding Dialysis
For many people, the scariest part of renal disease is the idea of dialysis. Although dialysis is a lifesaving and life extending procedure, it can be very uncomfortable and have many side effects.
Eating a healthy and balanced diet can help you outright avoid dialysis or at the very least prolong your time before dialysis is needed.
You do have control over renal disease, and eating healthy is the number one thing you can do to take control. Eating healthy promotes a long and healthy life, increased comfort levels, and gives you the change to avoid dialysis as well as a host of other medical problems.
For more information about eating healthy with renal disease and a menu plan, check out my other blogs.
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