Hi everyone! Its Mathea Ford, Registered Dietitian and creator of the Love Your Kidneys. It was just a CKD Meal Planning course. Today, I wanted to talk about what I learned from my family member having kidney disease and if you’ve ever heard my story you know that that family member to my mom. I […]
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How to Build Your Own Meal Plan for Chronic Kidney Disease
One of the very best tools for sticking to a new or restrictive diet is meal planning. Meal planning can help to take all the guesswork out of figuring out a new diet and starting healthy habits. With just a little bit of work put in at the beginning of each week, you can save […]
Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 003 – Habits Are Better Than Goals
This week I delve into the concept of creating habits that are stronger than goals. While we discussed goals last time, many of the concepts are actually good ways to change your habits. I talk in detail about how goals might be short lived, but a habit is a much more long term plan. I […]
Diet For Kidney Failure Stage 4
What Diet Should I Follow For Stage 4 Kidney Disease? Keep reading to find out more about the recommended stage 4 kidney diet! The stages of kidney failure designate the level of damage to kidney. Staging can also signify the relative kidney function. Patients with the 4th stage renal failure condition more often than […]
Grapefruit On A Renal Diet: Can I Eat Grapefruit On A Renal Diet?
CAN I EAT GRAPEFRUIT ON A RENAL DIET? A renal diet basically includes restriction of potassium in most cases. Potassium is an electrolyte that is essential in a lot of processes in our body in the cellular level. However, as the old adage goes—“too much of anything is not good,” and it applies to every […]
Great Picnic Meals For Pre-Dialysis CKD
Healthy Eating Great Picnic Meals for Pre-Dialysis CKD With the aromas of barbecues in the air in the summer, it’s time to get ready for another great picnic. Even if you have chronic kidney disease (CKD) and your doctor / dietitian gave you pre-dialysis nutritional guidelines to follow, you can still make this next picnic […]
Renal Diet Grocery List – Canned Vs. Fresh Vegetables
Building a Renal Diet Grocery List – Canned Vegetables vs. Fresh Vegetables – Which Is Better for My Renal Pre-Dialysis Kidney Disease? If you live in an area where fresh vegetables are not readily available or affordable, you may feel your options are limited to canned vegetables. It may also be the case that fresh […]
What Kidney Diet Should I Follow For 20% Kidney Function?
How Do I Know What Kidney Diet To Follow? Your kidney diet prescription is closely related to your eGFR and your percentage kidney function. Your eGFR is the amount of creatinine that your kidneys are filtering through. The lower it is, the higher stage of kidney disease you have. Stage 1 = 90+ eGFR with […]
Is Peritoneal Dialysis Really Better Than Hemodialysis?
In a new article, published in November of 2012, researchers looked at whether or not people on PD were more or less happy than others on different types of dialysis. The researchers made an attempt to look at the values and priorities in people’s lives to see how the dialysis was affecting them. This study […]
Holiday Eating With Non Dialysis Kidney Disease
Your Non Dialysis Kidney Disease Is Important To Think About Now that the holidays are almost upon us, it’s important as a person with kidney disease to think about how you can enjoy the holidays – from the meals to the parties to the shopping – and not end up hurting your non dialysis kidney […]
Renal Diet Menu – Ways To Make Your Meals Better
A renal diet menu can be several types of renal diets. Are you looking for a predialysis renal diet or a dialysis renal diet? Your menus will be drastically different. As you progress in kidney disease, you eat less protein to spare your kidneys. Then when you are on dialysis, you eat more protein because […]
What Foods Should I Avoid On A Renal Diet? Let’s Talk About High Potassium Foods
When I read through forum posts, a lot of people ask about avoiding high potassium foods. They may have heard it on another blog, another forum, or from their doctor. Of course, there are usually very few details given as to why or what foods to avoid that are high potassium foods. Today I would […]
