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Kidney Diet Tips: How Much Potassium in Salad Greens?
What’s not to love about a cold salad served in a chilled bowl with your favorite salad dressing? Today’s kidney diet tips will help if you’re following a low potassium diet but love salad greens. As you can see from the chart below, all the salad greens listed are less than 200 mg potassium for a 1 cup […]
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Stay on Track with Your Kidney Diet this Halloween
Halloween is almost here again, along with cooler nights and breezy days. For many, October 31st marks the beginning of holiday eating and diet temptations. It’s time to devise a plan to help you stick to your kidney diet despite the chocolate covered nuts and other goodies that may tempt you. Your goal may be […]
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Kidney Diet Tips: Finding Nutrients in Food
Where do you go for help when you want to find out the nutrients in your food? Knowing protein, carbohydrate, fat, sodium, potassium, phosphorus and calcium content of food helps you make better decisions…and may influence how closely you stick to your kidney diet. There are several sources to consider. The most obvious nutrient source […]
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Kidney Diet Tips: The Scoop on Chocolate for Valentine’s Day
Imagine you’ve enjoyed a Valentine’s Day dinner with your special someone. In addition to a romantically funny card, your sweetie pulls out a box of chocolates. Do you keep it or pass it on to someone who isn’t concerned about potassium and phosphorus? It may be a hard decision, but if you are more informed […]
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Is Kidney disease reversible through diet in people with diabetes ?
Anyone with diabetes and chronic kidney disease would gladly accept a treatment that could reverse their kidney disease. That’s why this topic in an article I recently ran across caught my attention. A report from Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers indicate a ketogenic diet may help people who have kidney disease related to Type 1 […]
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"An Apple a Day" Muffins – Kidney-Friendly Recipe
These "An Apple a Day" Muffins can help you increase calorie and protein intakes on a kidney-friendly diet. Make a batch to enjoy all week long. Get the recipe: http://ow.ly/pbz950E8GXx
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Kidney Diet Tips: A New Recipe for Sodium Girl’s Low-Sodium Recipe Rally
This week I’m stepping up to the challenge. Sodium Girl, who blogs on living salt-free and who has first hand experience dealing with kidneys, has challenged her readers to take a salty recipe and replace the high-sodium ingredients with low-sodium substitutes, creating a low-sodium dish full of flavor. I found out about the challenge a day ago, […]
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Kidney Diet Food Budget for the New Year
The beginning of a new year is a great time to assess and plan your food budget. When it comes to buying food for a kidney diet, some people express concern over spending more money on special products to help reduce sodium and phosphorus intake. For example, the low sodium version of canned tuna and […]
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Kidney diet recipes: DaVita Holiday Kidney Diet Delights
As the holidays quickly approach, it’s time to start planning holiday meals, appetizers for social events and friendly visits, and gifts from the kitchen. No need to stress over what to prepare for your kidney diet. DaVita dietitians have put together a collection of recipes, "DaVita Holiday Kidney Diet Delights" to make your holidays special and take away the […]
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Selecting the Best Cheese for a Kidney Diet
Cheese is a featured ingredient in this month’s DaVita recipe collection, Kidney-Friendly Cheesy Appetizers. Almost everyone likes cheese, but kidney patients are told to limit or even avoid it due to the phosphorus content. In addition, some cheeses are quite high in sodium.