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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
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Finally back!
Finally back! I took a blog leave to work on DaVita Diet Helper which has now launched and is available for anyone to use. DaVita Diet Helper is the newest tool available to help kidney patients plan their diets. You simply register then enter your diet prescription (you need to know your protein and potassium […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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:
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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 […]
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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 […]
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About Kidney Diet Tips
About Kidney Diet Tips This blog is brought to you by DaVita Kidney Care, a company that, through its operating divisions, provides a variety of health care services to patient populations throughout the United States and abroad. DaVita Kidney Care is a leading provider of kidney care in the United States, delivering dialysis services to […]
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Why does the renal diet limit some healthy foods?
When a person starts on dialysis, one of the diet contradictions is that all the sudden some foods that were forbidden are on the ‘ok to eat’ list and foods that were healthy to eat end up on the ‘limit or avoid’ list. What’s going on? The answer has something to do with potassium and […]