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Kidney Diet Tips: What’s the Best Kind of Squash?
Food lists can make deciding what to buy for your kidney diet easier, but can also be a source or confusion. Squash is one example, since it appears on both low and high potassium food lists. Today’s post gives you some squash facts to help select the best choices for your kidney diet. Squash varieties fall […]
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A Fresh Food Start for Your Kidney Diet
Happy New Year! This is my favorite time of the year to not only reflect on the past year, but to start changes that will make 2013 even better. Today, my focus is on fresh foods in the kidney diet as a healthy change. The whole nation is experiencing a transformation in how we think […]
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CMS-Proposed Cuts to Dialysis Payment: The Impact on Nutrition Care for Dialysis Patients
If you are a renal dietitian, you have most likely heard about the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal to cut payment for dialysis treatment by nearly 10 percent. I encourage you to join the other members of the kidney care community who are responding in protest and even outrage that such a […]
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Kidney Diet Tips on Phosphate Additives – Your Great Phosphorus Saver (G.P.S.) Guide
DaVita Dietitian Julia from Ohio is today’s guest blogger with some great kidney diet tips about phosphorus. Phosphorus by the Numbers Just knowing that because your kidneys cannot remove phosphorus you need to avoid phosphate additives is the first step. Knowing where these additives are found and how to avoid them is the all important next step. Think of […]
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Holiday Flavors for the Kidney Diet
December is the month for holiday celebrations, and now is the time to pick out a few ‘go to’ kidney diet holiday recipes you can prepare with little fuss. By selecting recipes made for your kidney diet you can always feel good about enjoying food with your guests or bringing a dish to a holiday event. There […]
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Positively Thanksgiving: Kidney Diet Tips to Keep You on Track
It’s almost here—my favorite fall holiday! Maybe it’s the cooking or the fact there are no presents to buy, or maybe it’s the memories of Thanksgivings past and the leftovers on Friday. As you plan for this year’s holiday, think about the good times past and what you can do this week to feel good and […]
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Vegetarian Diets for Chronic Kidney Disease
World Vegetarian Day (Oct 1), If you have chronic kidney disease (CKD) a vegetarian diet may help protect your kidneys and delay progression to end stage kidney disease (ESRD). Benefits of vegetarian diets include: If you decide to try a vegetarian eating plan but are unsure where to start, try adding meatless meals several times a week. Read articles […]
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New test to detect kidney disease in diabetes-10 years earlier
Today I ran across a Joslin Diabetes Center study about diabetes and early detection of kidney disease. The study results are of particular interest to me for several reasons. I’ve worked with so many people with diabetes, diagnosed with kidney disease and they didn’t even know they were at risk before ending up near or on dialysis. Secondly, […]
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DaVita Dietitians Go Beyond Dialysis to Improve Nutrition
March 1st marks the beginning of National Nutrition Month and National Kidney Month. This year the DaVita Dietitian team, made of over 1500 renal dietitians, is making waves by helping to improve nutrition not only for their dialysis patients, but for their teammates and local communities. The project, “Creating a Wave of Healthy Choices”, was created […]