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  • What’s Healthy About the Dialysis Diet?

    Diets by nature limit certain foods or food groups. Often this causes dieters to focus on what they can’t have instead of what they can have. The list of foods limited in the diet for kidney patients includes many more foods than other diets because of concerns about protein, sodium, potassium and phosphorus. Being an […]

  • Potassium Content in Recipes

    Potassium content is often difficult to find on food labels or in recipes. Exceptions include cookbooks and websites specifically for chronic kidney disease or dialysis patients (see Kidney Diet Tips blogroll). Keep in mind, Eating Well magazine recipes are not developed for the kidney diet. Recipes vary from low to high potassium and phosphorus analysis is not available. […]

  • D is for ….Dairy Delicious Milk

    Dairy Delicious Milk™ is low potassium, low phosphorus real milk, treated by a demineralization process. It’s produced by Delicious Milk Company. I like this company because they help kidney patients stick to their diets by providing a kidney-friendly version of milk and cheese. Dairy foods are limited and terribly missed when a low potassium, low phosphorus diet is required for dialysis or […]

  • How to determine if a food is high or low potassium

    A consideration is how much of the food will be consumed in relation to

  • Happy Holiday Eating

     Happy Holiday Eating! Part of enjoying the holidays is staying healthy. For kidney patients this is a challenge since holidays are centered on food and drinks. How you approach this challenge can make all the difference! Instead of focusing on what you can’t have, take a different spin and focus on the positive things you […]

  • Holiday Survival

    Do you have a plan for surviving the holidays without blowing your kidney diet? With all the social events, eating temptations and extra goodies this time of year, a person could easily consume extra sodium, potassium, phosphorus and fluid. Check out the attached handout for some great suggestions from the DaVita Dietitian team on things you can […]

  • Is there an online resource to help with planning a kidney diet?

    DaVita.com is creating an online meal planner called the DaVita Diet Helper. It provides kidney-friendly meals and snacks based on the diet entered. Users create their own weekly menu based on the meals and recipes they choose. They can even print a shopping list and save favorite meals and previous menus. If you want to […]

  • Menu suggestions for a dialysis diet summertime lunch

    Looking for a refreshing lunch for a warm summer day? Try one of these low sodium, low potassium, low phosphorus menus:

  • Egg whites for a dialysis diet

    Egg whites are an excellent source or high quality protein for the dialysis diet. Egg whites are very low in phosphorus (5 mg per egg white). Most of the phosphorus in an egg is in the yolk (60-90 mg per yolk).  Pasteurized fresh egg whites are packaged in a carton, found in the egg/dairy section […]

  • Spinach: Yes or No For a Dialysis Diet?

    Raw spinach is lower in potassium than cooked spinach. If you’ve ever cooked a bag of spinach, you can probably guess why. When heated, spinach leaves wilt, so it takes about 3 times more to produce an equal volume. For comparison, 1/2 cup cooked fresh spinach weighs 3 ounces and contains 419 mg potassium. 1/2 […]