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Hidden Potassium in Reduced-Sodium Meat
When trying to make smarter choices at the grocery store, you may be tempted to purchase the reduced-sodium meat or poultry option of your favorite deli meat instead of the original product. After scanning the ingredient list to insure no phosphate additives, you note a significantly lower sodium content. However, while aiming to reduce the amount […]
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Slow Cooker or Pressure Cooker Quick Meals
Dialysis can be tough on family dinnertime, especially when you want quick meals. Treatment schedules may make achieving a sit down family meal hard. When family members eat at different times and places, it’s easy to stray away from home cooked meals. You may be tempted to turn towards processed foods or fast foods that […]
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Go Low: Lower Potassium Fruit and Vegetable Choices
Summertime is here and full of fresh fruit and vegetable choices. While these fresh foods are packed with healthy vitamins and minerals, some produce choices are high in potassium. A person with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on a low potassium diet cannot safely handle too many high potassium foods. For this reason, your doctor or dietitian […]
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Squash: A New Pasta Alternative
Pasta is an excellent low-phosphorus and low-potassium choice when following a kidney diet. However, it is important for people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) or on dialysis to manage their blood sugars by limiting foods high in carbohydrate. Pasta is a higher carbohydrate item and a food that some may find it easy to […]
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Improving Cholesterol and Phosphorus with Niacin
Are you a dialysis patient that takes your binders and monitors your diet but still find yourself with high phosphorus levels each month? Some patients have that feeling of frustration when so much effort is put into trying to improve their phosphorus. If this sounds like you, you may want to talk to your doctor about […]
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Memorial Day Picnic and Barbeque Tips and Recipes
Are you ready for Memorial Day? This day of honor reminds us of the sacrifices by those who died while serving in the United States’ Armed Forces. Unofficially, it also marks the beginning of summer vacation season as well as barbeque season! Spring is Here! Spring has sprung and signs of nature surround us. Flowers and […]
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Discount Grocery Shopping for Kidney Diets
I love a good bargain, getting something of value at a lower price than what I normally pay. When I hear the words bargain or discount I normally think of clothing, furniture, appliances and such, but what about groceries? I was intrigued when I heard that many dollar stores now carry food. Can you really […]
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Summer Solstice Celebration
Summer solstice is upon us. It usually falls on the 21st of June and is also known as midsummer. The solstice occurs when earth’s rotational axis is most inclined towards the sun. This happens twice a year, once in June and once in December. The sun reaches the highest point in the sky during the […]
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Coffee: What’s in Your Cup?
Coffee, glorious coffee! The first thing I do in the morning is turn on Mr. Coffee. One time when we were out of coffee, I found myself driving around at 4 am searching for a Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks that was open. This coffee lover is not alone. Coffee is one of the most common […]
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Peritoneal Dialysis and Fluid Goals
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients are usually able to have a less restrictive meal plan than those on hemodialysis (HD). This is due to doing treatments daily. Frequent treatments allow toxins and fluid to be removed more often compared to HD treatments. Fluid goals for PD patients may not be the same as the goals for HD […]
