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  • Nutrition Facts Food Label: What’s New

    Reviewing the potassium, phosphorus, sodium and overall nutritional value of a food can be useful when making choices about what to eat for a kidney diet. The newly updated food labels are an important resource to help better understand what’s in the foods you buy. Updates made to food labels in the past year may […]

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  • Find Extra Flavor with Low-Sodium Sauces

    Adding a sauce to a recipe can bring pizzazz to what was once a dull meal. DaVita® dietitian Erin Dickerson explains how you can bring extra flavor to your kidney diet without going overboard on your sodium intake.

  • Strawberry Cupcakes Gluten-free

    Combining the kidney diet with a gluten-free diet is a challenge, but with a few ingredient changes some favorite recipes can be adapted to fit both diets. DaVita teammate Meghan shares her favorite cupcake recipe. It’s kidney-friendly and gluten-free.

  • Getting Started on Peritoneal Dialysis in 5 Steps

    DaVita’s peritoneal dialysis (PD) program serves more patients than any other PD program in the United States. We are committed to your success with PD, which is why we have developed unparalleled services to support you.

  • Benefits of Plant-Based Eating in Kidney Disease, Part 2

    In Part 1 of this two-part series, we discussed how plant-based diets affect weight, blood pressure, diabetes and inflammation. In this second part, we’ll look at how plant-based diets can improve metabolic acidosis, a condition than can occur in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and patients on dialysis. Plant-Based Diets and Metabolic Acidosis Acidosis […]

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  • Go With Your Gut: CKD and Gut Health

    Gut health has become a hot topic. Fermented foods such as kombucha, kimchi and kefir have become popular for their probiotic benefits and their role in gut health. But, why is gut health important? Well, we want our gut and digestive system to be healthy so that our body can absorb nutrients from the foods […]

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  • Onion Herb Flatbread Crackers with Peachy Dip

    Snack crackers are usually salty, adding unwanted sodium to your kidney diet. Onion Herb Flatbread Crackers with Peachy Dip is the perfect kidney-friendly substitute as an everyday snack or party appetizer.

    Onion herb crackers peach dip

  • Crab-Stuffed Shrimp

    Shrimp is always a treat, but when it’s stuffed with crab, it’s beyond delectable. DaVita renal dietitian Danielle from Nevada shares a kidney-friendly crab-stuffed shrimp recipe that came from a patient at her Nevada dialysis center.

    Crab stuffed shrimp

  • DaVita Patients: 6 Benefits of Nocturnal Dialysis

    People who perform in-center nocturnal dialysis are generally experiencing a better quality of life and are feeling healthier. Going to dialysis treatment during the night frees up daytime hours for work, school, caring for family and enjoying activities without taking time out during the day for dialysis.

  • Pollo Guisado

    Pollo Guisado is a Puerto Rican chicken stew with vegetables, spices and herbs that give a lot of flavor without a lot of salt.