Herbed Sausage Stuffing You love to eat the stuffing at meals, especially around the holidays but you know it’s got a ton of carbs and can be high in sodium. Not this stuffing. You get a generous portion and you can eat a lot of it. Try this out with your next meal and see […]
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Navigating Summer Events with Chronic Kidney Disease
Summer is prime time for picnics, barbecues, camping, and outdoor parties. Living with a strict diet due to chronic kidney disease can put a damper on these festivities if you don’t know what you can safely eat in these situations. To help you navigate all of the upcoming summer events, here are some common foods […]
10 Tips To Heart Healthy Living With Kidney Disease – Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 010
Podcast #10 Released on February 26th, 2014. Ten tips for heart healthy living! Good Day! No new book releases, we discuss the answer to an email sent in from a listener. It was a question about how quickly the stage 3 kidney failure will progress or will it still get worse? I answer that and […]
The Ins and Outs of Cholesterol With Kidney Failure – Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 009
Podcast #9 – next week will be #10 – I want to celebrate! I hope you have had a great couple of weeks, this year is going along wonderful, and I am committed and more excited than ever about making this podcast every week. We have more people listening each week, and the audience is […]
Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 004 – Lowering the Salt In Your Renal Diet
This week I am discussing all the ways you can lower the salt in your diet. It’s important for all kinds of reasons to lower the salt in your diet. I discuss several strategies – like lowering the salt in your breakfast meal without adding phosphorus and potassium. I also talk about ways to ensure […]
Can You Eat Eggs with Renal Failure?
Can I Eat Eggs on a Renal Failure Diet? You’ll find yourself asking questions along the lines of can you eat eggs with renal failure regularly as you adjust to life after renal failure. For some people, this is a limiting and restrictive diet. However, if you learn to approach the diet by focusing on […]
Foods For A Healthy Kidney Diet
Healthy Kidney Diet When you have chronic kidney disease or CKD, your health care provider and nutritionist will give you advice on how to plan for a healthy kidney diet. Oftentimes your doctor will only give you information about the foods that you should avoid, and very little information is given about the foods […]
Dairy Products and the Pre-Dialysis Diet: Which Ones and How Much?
Is Dairy No Longer An Option Now That I Have Kidney Failure?-Dairy products and the pre-dialysis diet Individuals with kidney disease should be careful with dairy products, since many contain large amounts of phosphorous. Diseased kidneys have difficulty processing phosphorous, and high levels can speed the loss of kidney function, as well as cause blood […]
My Doctor Has Not Mentioned A Low Phosphorus Diet– Should I Be Concerned?
How Much Phosphorus Should I Eat? If you have kidney disease, you certainly know it’s a difficult diet to manage. That is one of the reasons we offer a meal planning solution – so you can control your kidney diet much easier and without the struggle – which reduces your stress and makes you healthier. […]
Can I Eat Quinoa On A Renal Diet?
Quinoa On A Renal Diet Learning more about the variety of starches out on the market is invaluable. Quinoa, pronounced (Keen – wah) is a versatile product that is actually a seed. Looking quinoa for a renal diet, you can see that it has many of the desired properties we want in a meal. 1 cup […]
Did You Know That 30% Of People With Diabetes Will Develop Kidney Disease?
The other day, November 14th, was World Diabetes Day, and I saw a really neat infographic from the IDF – Diabetes Prevalence In The World “Diabetes is running at record levels worldwide and half the people estimated to have the disease are, as yet, undiagnosed, according to a report on Wednesday. The number of people […]
Following a Kidney Diet Menu is Important
A Kidney Diet Menu Helps Your Renal Function In a human body, blood has to perform the critical function of carrying oxygen and other nutrients to the body cells. It also is responsible for taking the waste away from these cells so it is very essential that the chemical composition of blood is controlled properly. […]
