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January 31, 2018
Renal Diet Podcast 071 – Eating Whole Wheat Bread
Can You Eat Whole Wheat Bread With Kidney Disease?
Podcast #71 Released on January 24, 2018
Eating whole wheat or white bread. Which is better? Why does it matter? What is the issue with it?
On kidney disease diet you have a lot of unlearning to do. There’s a lot of foods that are healthy for you if you don’t have kidney disease that you may have to change a little bit when you do find out you have kidney disease.
One of those things is the concept of potassium and phosphorus so there’s a lot of difference in the amount of potassium and phosphorus between whole wheat bread and regular white bread.
First, I want to help you to understand what is a whole wheat bread versus a regular white bread. Whole wheat bread says exactly that it says, whole wheat on it. If it just says wheat bread then it’s probably just white bread with brown coloring. They do that a lot to make you think you’re eating healthier and you’re not. It is similar to white bread.
When you look at bread, if it says wheat bread is not even doing you any good to eat it but if you do look at it and it says whole wheat bread or whole grain or seven grain that type of thing, that’s whole wheat bread and that’s the bread that’s different.
There are lots of vegetables that you should be eating as if you are following a dash diet which is what you follow with stage 1 or stage 2 kidney disease then you really eat more fruits and vegetables, you eat 5 to 10 servings a day. You eat lots of carrots, lots of tomatoes, lots of fresh fruits like plums and oranges, limes and all those things.
When you get to stage 3, stage 4, you want to manage those and need to lower potassium and phosphorus foods. You don’t have to cut out potassium and phosphorus and you don’t have to necessarily pay attention too much to those foods until your doctor says that that is something you need to manage and that’s usually later on in stage 4 and stage 5 kidney disease.
This whole question revolves around potassium and phosphorus restriction. Because white bread and wheat bread and whole wheat bread in and of themselves are carbohydrates. Carbohydrate doesn’t necessarily damage your kidneys unless you have diabetes and if you have diabetes, you want to manage the number of servings that you have with carbohydrates but not necessarily whether its white or wheat bread.
Going over the specifics, white bread has about half of the potassium and phosphorus, maybe even a third of potassium and phosphorus that whole wheat bread has. It just depends on what exactly the whole wheat bread is. Obviously, if you eat that it’s within your diet, if it’s within your manageable calories and carbs then it can matter because you can eat more of the white bread than just the whole wheat bread if you’re following a potassium or phosphorus restriction.
It’s just important to know that the whole distinction is about potassium and phosphorus. If you’re not on a restriction, then it’s better for you to eat a higher fiber food which is the whole grain, whole wheat bread then it is for you to eat just white bread which is really the equivalent of sugar when you eat it.
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Renal Diet Podcast 070 – Different Types of Dialysis
Different Types of Dialysis for Kidney Failure
Podcast #70 Released on January 23, 2018
Dialysis happens when you get to end-stage renal disease and you’re stage 5 and your kidneys are down to 10% or 5% function.
Prior to that time while you’re still kind of feeling decent but you know that this day is coming. You’ve talked to your doctor about it, you’ve reviewed your options. Maybe you’re not eligible for a transplant or you just haven’t found a donor yet so you decide to do dialysis because you want to continue to have your life and you get a fistula placed which is a spot in one of your veins or you get a tube in your stomach placed depending on which type of dialysis that you’re going to do.
The dialysis is going to be either peritoneal or hemodialysis. Peritoneal goes into your stomach while hemodialysis is your blood.
The hemodialysis is the most common and you’d get a fistula placed and what that is it’s kind of a place where they bring your artery in your vein together, they connect it, takes a little while to heal but once it heals then your body is able to use that to put the needles in. It involves needles, it involves filters, it involves machines. So, once then you get to the point where that’s healed and the reason why you do that a little bit early is because in dialysis, you don’t always choose when it starts so being ready for it is a good thing. Having the dialysis fistula put in or the connector for the peritoneal and then you get ready.
The 3 different ways that you can do dialysis. You can do hemodialysis two ways. You can either get it done in the center which means you go to a facility, a nurse hooks you up, you lay there for 3 hours or 4 hours while they clean and filter your blood. You do that three times a week, you have a fairly restrictive diet. You are restricted on your fluids because at this point, your kidneys aren’t working at all or very little and so you are not able to get rid of any fluid between dialysis treatments.
Therefore, you have to limit what fluid you take in so that’s where fluid restrictions happen. You get your restrictive diet because your body holds on to all that potassium and phosphorus and your blood is only cleaned every two days whereas with your kidneys, your blood is being cleaned constantly.
You have another option within center dialysis. Sometimes you have the option to have an overnight stay so that would be a gentler dialysis. The three-hour one is pretty fast and it can leave you feeling really tired because you just did two days worth of filtering of your blood in three hours. You can do overnight so they can hook you up and they do it maybe over a period of eight hours. Some places have this, some places don’t.
You also have with hemodialysis, the option for home dialysis so you can have a machine at your house or a machine that you can take with you. You have to have different chemicals; you get trained over time so a lot of times you’ll start with an in center dialysis and then you’ll go to in-center and then you’ll switch and they’ll train you for several weeks and you’ll learn how to put in your own needles or have someone help you with the needles, you’ll have help at home but you’ll basically be able to do dialysis every day so you’re cleaning your blood more often. Your diet is a lot less restrictive and you’re able to have more freedom because you could go places and not have to worry about finding a center where you’re going. So, if you go on vacation, you can take your machine with you.
In-home dialysis is the most flexible diet and the easiest to do because you do that for 2 or 3 hours a day, you can do it overnight that type of thing.
The 3rd one is called peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis is a process where you take in your stomach area. You have a lining that goes between your skin and your intestines and it’s called the Peritoneum.
What happens is they put a catheter into that area and then they fill it with the dialysate which is the fluid that removes the potassium, phosphorus, urea all that waste that’s in your blood and so it’s kind of like osmosis and it goes through the lining. The concentration is higher in the dialysate so it pulls those things out of your blood and then you do what are called the exchanges where you trade out that fluid 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times a day. You’re sometimes able to do it overnight so you basically walk around and do your regular activities but you a fluid in your stomach constantly that can add 4 or 5 pounds to your body but it’s doing the dialysis. It is like a constant dialysis and it works like your kidneys. Those are convenient and easy to do and doing exchanges, it does not involve needles so a lot of people like that a lot better.
You just have to decide what is the best for you and what is your kind of body going to deal with the best. For a lot of people in center dialysis is nice because they just lay there for three hours and while it happens and they just have to go three times a week.
The limitations on the diet are the worst but then peritoneal and home hemo involve you doing some activities and you being responsible for some of that but in exchange you get a lot of freedom as far as time and flexibility and not having to drive to a center or that type of thing.
It’s up for you to decide but I want you to be aware that there’s more than just what you may have seen on television or read or driven by the centers to see that there’s more than that available and those are all things that you can do and that you insurance will pay for.
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January 30, 2018
Renal Diet Podcast 069 – My Philosophy on Kidney Disease Diet
My Philosophy on Kidney Disease Diet
Podcast #69 Released on January 22, 2018
I am talking about my personal philosophy as a dietitian on a kidney disease diet. It is important that we are to watch what we eat.
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January 29, 2018
Renal Diet Podcast 068 – Portion Control Secrets
Portion Control Secrets For A Kidney Disease Diet
Podcast #68 Released on January 21, 2018
Portions are extremely important as you are able to measure how much you are eating. Listen in to find convenient ways in portion control.
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Renal Diet Podcast 067 – Tomatoes And A Kidney Diet
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Renal Diet Podcast 067 – Tomatoes And A Kidney Diet
Tomatoes and A Kidney Diet
Podcast #67 Released on January 20, 2018
The problem with Tomatoes and Kidney Disease is Potassium. Tomatoes have high levels of Potassium.
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Renal Diet Podcast 066 – Progression of Symptoms
Progression of Symptoms with Chronic Kidney Disease
Podcast #66 Released on January 19, 2018
Chronic Kidney Disease gets worse with time. You can slow down the effects of Chronic Kidney Disease and its progression. Listen to find out how you can go back to the days that you don’t have it.
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Renal Diet Podcast 065 – Grapefruit, Kidney Disease, Medications
Grapefruit, Kidney Disease and Your Medications
Podcast #65 Released on January 18, 2018
There are medications that have interactions with Grapefruit or Grapefruit juice. It is important that we understand how medications react to our food.
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Renal Diet Podcast 060 – Small Steps Mean Big Results Motivation
Small Steps Mean Big Results Motivation
Podcast #60 Released on January 11, 2018
Start something that you can change today that would make huge difference along the road. Listen in to get motivated.
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Renal Diet Podcast 059 – 3 Easy Tips For Low Potassium Diet
A Low Potassium Diet 3 Tips To Make It Easier Renal Diet
Podcast #59 Released on January 10, 2018
Too much Potassium in your blood affects the functions of your body. You can manage your Potassium diet. Listen in for quick tips to have effective Low Potassium Diet.
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Renal Diet Podcast 058 – Different Kinds of Important Fats
Different Kinds of Fats In Your Diet Are Important To Your Health
Podcast #58 Released on January 9, 2018
The different kinds of Fats that you have in your diet. What they mean and what they do to your health.
With the renal diet, one of the important facts to know is whether Fats is good or bad for you. There are a couple of different ways to determine if the fat is good or bad for your diet.
Fat is not the enemy. Fat is important to your diet. It helps you to absorb certain nutrients, certain vitamins like A, D, E which are all fat soluble vitamins that helps your body in a lot of ways. These types of vitamins help you feel full and do not affect your blood sugar as a temporary thing.
Overtime, if you have a lot of Fats accumulated in your body, you could be overweight or obese. Then fat could affect your blood sugar because it can cause you to have high risks for diabetes.
Temporarily, if you eat fat at a meal, you’re diabetic, it’s not gonna affect your blood sugar at that meal and it may even help you eat a little less if you eat regular fat food coz you get that fullness feeling from the fat and instead of the sugar that burns quicker makes you hungry. Your fat is slowly broken inside your body that makes you feel full longer.
How fat can be bad is when you have too much fat, you eat too many calories and all that affects you’re your blood sugar. It’s great that it affects your blood sugar as it does not drain your blood sugar right away. So if you are diabetic, then you wanna lean to have more fat than a little sugar that will be actually healthier for you.
Different kinds of Fats. Saturated fat is fat that is solid in room temperature. That is not healthy for you because in room temperature, it will be solid in your body which then what causes higher cholesterol levels. Cholesterol does not necessarily directly cause you to have higher cholesterol but saturated fat in your food does. If you don’t want to increase your Cholesterol levels, you wanna manage your intake of Saturated Fats.
Trans Fat is a healthy fat like olive oil and vegetables. It was whipped, hydrated and then became solid. So, it’s not healthy for you. It’s better to have a saturated fat like butter which is a little healthier than margarine that has Trans fat.
What affects your Cholesterol levels?
Cholesterol is only made in our liver so only things that have a liver are going to have cholesterol in it. So, animals have cholesterol than vegetables.
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