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March 23, 2015
Prevent Kidney Failure with a Sensible Meal Plan
No matter what stage of kidney disease you are currently in, you have the potential to effectively halt the progress of your disease and prevent kidney failure. Yes, you read that correctly– you can prevent kidney failure. How you can do this starts with a sensible and well thought out meal plan.Why Meal Planning Is Successful
Meal planning helps take the guess work out of the ever present question, “What’s for dinner?”. Knowing what you are going to eat for each meal, knowing that you have everything you need to make each meal, and being generally prepared make it so easy to stick to a healthy and kidney safe diet. Meal planning basically gives you a schedule to live by, except it is a schedule to eat by instead.
How to Build a Meal Plan
A sensible meal plan follows a few basic principles: research, readiness, and preparation.
Research: Following a kidney safe diet can seem boring if you do not know how to create delicious meals with the right recommended foods. A great way to overcome this obstacle is to look to books and/or the Internet to find delicious and kidney friendly meal ideas. Research can also help you to understand why some foods and additives, for example salt, are not safe for kidney disease patients. Using this research, you can come up with a week or so worth of meal ideas. Make sure that you are including all meals and snacks, because the better planned you are the more successful you will be. Also keep in mind that the easier the recipes are to follow and the simpler the ingredients, the easier it will be for you and the more likely you will be to stick to the plan.
Readiness: Based on the meal plan you have made, you will then want to make lists of the foods and ingredients you will need to make these meals happen. Take this list to the grocery store and do not stray from your list. If you can avoid impulse buys, you are more likely to avoid buying foods that could be back for your kidney disease diet.
Preparation: Being prepared is a huge part of effective meal planning. Whatever you can do to make things easier for yourself is going to make it more likely for you to follow through. Simply knowing what you are going to eat, and having the ingredients to make those recipes, are huge steps that are going to help you immensely. To make things even easier, you can do meal prep ahead of time as well. You can chop up vegetables, measure out ingredients, and remember to thaw any frozen foods that need to be thawed.
A sensible meal plan can help you stick to a healthy, kidney safe diet, which in turn can help you avoid kidney failure. Of course, whenever you have questions or concerns or are making changes to your diet, you should speak to your physicians first. You want to make sure you are eating the healthiest diet for your situation, so you too can avoid kidney failure.
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March 16, 2015
How to Plan Kidney-Safe Meals the Whole Family Can Enjoy
At any stage of kidney disease, meal planning is one of the most important factors to a healthy lifestyle. What you eat and drink has major implications to your health and comfort. If you are cooking to feed a family and not just yourself, you want to be able to make kidney safe meals that your whole family can enjoy. After all, you do not want to have to cook separate meals for yourself and your family. Not only that, but it is always a good idea to start your family eating healthier, especially with a history of illness in the family.Planning Basics
Especially when you are cooking for a family, effective planning is your best bet for being able to maintain consistent healthy meals. Typically, it is when you are rushed and unprepared that you make poor decisions about what to cook or feed yourself and your family. Putting together a thorough meal plan, including all meals and snacks, and knowing what you will be eating for the next week or so will really help you to stick to the best and healthiest meals. You can plan what you want to eat, find healthy recipes, make shopping lists, and do prep work ahead of time to make things so much easier on yourself.
Simple Seasonings
One of the biggest issues that a lot of people have with kidney safe diets is avoiding certain additives, especially sodium, in cooking. Your best tool for tackling this problem is to avoid using salt, and rely on herbs and spices to flavor your food instead. You do not have to get real fancy or know a lot about cooking to make this a successful endeavor. There are even a lot of salt-free seasoning mixes that are ready to use available at most grocery stores. These make it easy to season foods perfectly so that everyone can enjoy a delicious meal without the added salt.
Fresh Offerings
It should come as no surprise that fresh vegetables, beans, and more taste so much better than canned. Your whole family will notice the difference when the food on their plate is fresh and delicious, and your health will fare better for it too. When you cannot find what you are looking for fresh, you can also turn to frozen as most of the vitamins and nutrients are preserved in freezing, and there are no extra preservatives like there are in canned. Whatever you can get that is the freshest, the better off you will all be.
Tasty Substitutions
Just because you are eating a healthy, kidney safe, diet does not mean that you have to cut out all of your favorite foods completely. There are still some foods that you can enjoy on special occasions, and favorite foods that you can effectively recreate, with some simple and tasty substitutions. For example, you can replace most high fat dairy products with non-dairy replacements made with soy or from nuts or other sources. Another example is squeezing fresh lemon on top of dishes that might taste like they need more salt. The list of tasty substitutions just goes on, so you can make your family’s favorite meals more kidney-safe for you.
Just because you are living with kidney disease or illness does not mean that you have to eat separately, or that you and your family cannot enjoy your meals together. There are plenty of kidney safe, family friendly meals that you can make. It all starts with a little planning. Learn more about kidney disease here.
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March 9, 2015
Common Symptoms of Chronic Kidney Disease and What They Mean For Meal Planning
Everything that you eat and drink affects your body, especially when you are living with chronic kidney disease. Many of the common symptoms of chronic kidney disease can be made worse or better simply with the foods you eat. Effective meal planning can help you manage your symptoms.What are some common symptoms of chronic kidney disease?
There are multiple stages of chronic kidney disease, and so the symptoms and severity of those symptoms will vary based on how early or late stage your disease is. The very earliest stage of chronic kidney disease often has no symptoms, which is why seeing your doctor for regular checkups is important for early detection.
As the disease progresses, symptoms can include frequent urination, pain with urination, the inability to urinate, back pain, dizziness, fatigue, blood in the urine, swelling, and more. The more progressed the disease gets, the worse the symptoms get and the more symptoms pop up. At end stage renal disease, or kidney failure, dialysis is needed to replace the function of the kidneys. Otherwise, the body cannot function without the many essential functions of the kidneys.
How does meal planning help manage symptoms?
As mentioned before, what you eat and drink can severely affect your body, especially with chronic kidney disease. Sensible meal planning can not only help make many of your symptoms easier to manage, but it could actually help to stop the progression of kidney disease and ultimately prevent kidney failure.
Meal planning is effective because it takes the guess work out of figuring out what to eat, when to eat it, and how to prepare for each meal. It is very much like an instructional manual that you put together yourself and follow. If you meal plan effectively, you are a lot more likely to stick to a healthy and kidney safe diet.
The best meal plans start with research. This research can be done in a library or on the Internet, and varies from simply learning more about kidney disease and which foods are and are not good for you to finding great recipes to keep your kidney safe diet more interesting. It is a simple fact that if you are bored with your diet you will find it harder to stick to it, and will be more likely to stray. Using that research, you make a plan of what you will eat for each meal and snacks, for up to a week at a time. Keeping recipes and plans simple will also help you stick to the plan. Once you have your plan, do all of your preparations such as grocery shopping and any prep work that will make each meal easier. Again, the easier you make things the more likely you will be to stick to the plan that you have make.
With effective meal planning, you can lessen many of the most uncomfortable symptoms of chronic kidney disease. Meal planning helps you make the smartest decisions for your condition, and since what you eat directly affects your kidney function, you will notice a big difference. As always, talk to your doctor before making any big changes to your diet or lifestyle.
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Three Reasons Your Kidneys are Essential to your Entire Body
The kidneys are perhaps some of the most important organs in the body. Just like your body could not function without a beating heart, your kidneys are essential to your entire body. They do so much in your body that you may not even be aware of, and some of those functions are absolutely necessary for your entire body to function properly.There are three main jobs that your kidneys are responsible for, that make them essential for a healthy functioning body. These are waste removal, hormone production, and fluid regulation. These three jobs are absolutely essential, and your body would not be able to function properly, or even at all, without them.
Waste Removal
Your kidneys act much like filters for the entire body. Anything that is floating through your bloodstream, be it excess minerals, fluid, or food byproducts, are filtered through the kidneys. Anything that does not belong in your body or is not needed is discarded.
A good example of how this works is what happens when you eat asparagus. After you eat the asparagus, the food is broken down in your stomach and the byproducts of the food are let into your bloodstream. Any excess vitamins or other byproducts, including the very smelly “asparagusic acid”, are filtered by the kidneys and expelled through the urine. You see, or rather smell, the proof of this in your urine after eating the vegetable.
This function of the kidneys is the main reason why there are many dietary restrictions for kidney disease patients. When the body is unable to filter out excess waste properly, dangerous build up can occur. Certain things, like sodium, phosphorus, and potassium, can cause life threatening problems if they build up too much.
Hormone Production
It is a little known fact that kidneys are responsible for the production of hormones. Hormones are basically the chemical messengers of your body, that tell different parts of your body what needs to be made or done to live and function. The hormones that the kidneys make are responsible for aiding in the production of red blood cells, regulating blood pressure, and even signaling the intestines to make calcium. All of these hormones, of course, are quite vital to the healthy functioning of your body.
Fluid Regulation
One of the main jobs of the kidneys is also to regulate fluid. The kidneys both filter out and keep in fluid when it is necessary for the body. It is important that the kidneys are able to do this job properly because too much retained water can be very dangerous. In fact, water retention can cause swelling to the point of edema, high blood pressure, dizziness, and much worse.
Just based on these three very important jobs, you can see that the kidneys are absolutely essential to the well-being and healthy functioning of the body. It is of the utmost importance to keep your kidneys healthy, and follow your doctor’s orders if anything should go wrong. If you have any stage of renal disease, it is so important for you to pay careful attention to physician’s instructions, your diet, and overall health to keep your kidneys as healthy as possible for as long as possible.
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Who Is Most Likely To Experience Renal Disease?
Especially in America, there is a considerably high occurrence rate of renal disease. According to the Center for Disease Control and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the occurrence rate of renal disease in the United States is nearly one in three, with that risk increasing over time. Most likely due to the standard American diet of fast and processed foods, most occurrences of renal disease are due to a high rate of diabetes and high blood pressure, both of which can lead to renal disease.Among developed countries, Americans are significantly more likely to experience renal disease. There are groups of people that are more at risk than others within the United States, however.
Who is at risk?
Truthfully, everyone is at risk and renal disease does not discriminate, nor do its other chronic counterparts such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Some groups of people, however, have shown to have higher occurrence rates of renal disease than others. These groups include African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Men are also more likely to have renal disease than women, but it affects all people regardless of ethnicity or gender.
What are the risk factors?
There are a number of risk factors that can put a person at risk for renal disease. Most of these risk factors involve lifestyle choices, such as smoking and maintaining a poor diet. The biggest risk factors of renal failure are diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, smoking, and cardiovascular disease. Some risk factors can also be genetic such as family history and age, as people over the age of sixty are the most likely to experience renal disease.
What can I do?
To avoid the risk of renal disease, or to slow the progression of the disease after diagnosis, there are a few things you can do to help. Probably the most important is maintaining a healthy diet. Focusing on primarily plant based meals, meaning lots of fresh vegetables as well as lean protein and whole grains, is your best start. If you have high blood pressure you should avoid sodium. The typical American diet includes a lot of processed foods, and this just isn’t healthy. It is best to avoid any food that comes in a cardboard box, as a rule. Instead, focus on whole, “real” foods.
Aside from diet, you can also get plenty of exercise. There are exercises that you can do at every level of fitness, so find what works for you and start there. Just 30 minutes of exercise a day can make a huge difference.
Talk to your doctor about your risk factors and what you can do to be the healthiest you possible. It is important to keep up with your doctor so he or she can monitor your progress, and of course you should speak to him or her about any changes you plan to make.
Renal failure is a huge problem, especially in the United States. There are many risk factors for renal disease, but no one is immune. Know the risk factors, talk to your doctor, and maintain the healthiest lifestyle possible to avoid becoming another American health statistic. Instead, be the best and healthiest you possible. Click here for more information on renal disease.
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Food Questions to Ask Your Doctor after Being Diagnosed With Chronic Kidney Disease
Once you have been diagnosed with a chronic illness such as chronic kidney disease, you likely have a million thoughts and questions racing through your head. It is very important for you to have those questions answered, but first you have to sort through them and find a way to articulate your thoughts. The first step, then, is to breathe and calm yourself.There is a huge occurrence of chronic kidney disease in the United States. While this is a sad statistic indeed, this does mean that you are not alone. It also means that there is likely a lot you can do about it. What you can do about it starts with what you put into your body. What you eat has a huge impact on chronic kidney disease, so many of the questions you should consider asking your doctor should start with what you can do about food.
Here are some questions to get you started:
• How is chronic kidney disease affected by food?
• How much difference can I make with my kidney disease by making dietary changes?
• What are the foods that I should avoid completely?
• What are the foods that I should eat only in moderation, and how often can I make that?
• What is the deal with chronic kidney disease and sodium?
• What are some ways I can cut sodium out of my diet?
• Is there anything else I should avoid at this particular stage of chronic kidney disease?
• Do I need to limit my protein intake?
• Do I need to monitor my potassium or phosphorus intake?
• What foods are high in potassium or phosphorus?
• With the right dietary changes, can I avoid end stage renal failure?
• What are the steps I need to take to slow the progression of my chronic kidney disease?
• What are the benefits of a plant based diet?
• Do I need to limit how much fruit I eat?
• Is there a professional nutritionist that specializes in chronic kidney disease that you can refer me to?
• What are some resources (books, websites, etc.) that you can refer to me to help me understand chronic kidney disease better?
• What are some resources for finding the best kidney disease friendly recipes?
That may seem like a lot of questions, but they are just a start to understanding your illness and what to do about it. Chronic kidney disease can be greatly impacted by the foods you eat, so maintaining the right diet can make all the difference when it comes to your life and well-being.
Studies show that you could potentially slow or even halt the progression of chronic kidney disease with the right treatment and dietary changes, so these questions are mere starting points for your discussions about food with your doctor. One you get rolling asking these questions and getting the answers, you will likely have a lot more questions and a lot more to discuss. For other topics about CKD click here.
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The Perfect Meal Plan for Chronic Kidney Disease
Living with chronic kidney disease isn’t exactly an everyday picnic. It can sometimes be tough, tiring, and even painful. What and how you eat, however, can seriously improve your symptoms and even effectively slow the progression of kidney disease.Building the perfect meal plan will vary from patient to patient depending on what stage of chronic kidney disease you are in. In the later stages, you might have fluid restrictions as well as tougher restrictions on what you can eat. It is always best to discuss any dietary changes or plans with your physicians and nutritionists. They are familiar with your specific case and needs and are the best to give you advice.
That being said, putting together the perfect meal plan for chronic kidney disease starts with the very best building blocks. These are the bones that are the frame of your diet, and will help you build every meal and snack, day by day. Starting with these building blocks will help you to better understand and fulfill a healthy and balanced kidney friendly diet.
Breakfast
To start your day you want to balance carbohydrates for energy, fiber for sustenance, and protein for strength.
Example: Two egg whites or ¼ cup of egg substitute scrambled with diced red and yellow bell peppers and onion. Serve with half an English muffin with low sugar fruit spread or margarine and a small sliced peach.
Late Morning Snack
Snacks help you keep your energy up throughout the day, so it’s a good idea to have a snack in between each meal. It doesn’t take much.
Example: One small apple.
Lunch
Lunch is an important meal of the day just like breakfast is. Keep everything balanced and healthy to maintain your well-being through the day.
Example: 3 ounces of grilled chicken breast strips, two teaspoons mayonnaise, one teaspoon mustard, lettuce and shredded carrot wrapped in a flour tortilla. Serve with a small serving of grapes.
Late Afternoon Snack
Example: Half an English muffin with 2 tablespoons of low fat cream cheese.
Dinner
The end to your day should be comforting and satisfying as well as balanced and nutritious.
Example: 4 ounces of baked fish served over a bed of white rice, topped with two teaspoons of tartar sauce and freshly squeezed lemon juice. Lemon juice is a great alternative to salt, especially on fish and poultry. Serve with steamed green beans and a side salad of lettuce, cucumber, radish, and carrot with balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
Dessert
Desserts should really be saved for special occasions, but everyone gets a sweet tooth now and then. If you keep your portions small and avoid the foods and ingredients that you aren’t supposed to have, you can indulge now and then. A good idea is to stick to fruit based foods like a small bowl of sliced strawberries with a little sweetener sprinkled over the top.
Late Night Snack
Example: A handful of fresh baby carrots.
This example of a healthy meal plan can help you build your everyday perfect meal plan for your kidney disease diet. Remember to avoid sodium at all costs, and watch your potassium, phosphorus, and protein intake depending on your doctor’s orders. With these ideas you can learn to build a meal plan for chronic kidney disease. Click here for other ways to create a meal plan.
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February 2, 2015
Ways to Plan Healthy Meals with Renal Disease
Effective meal planning is your number one tool when it comes to battling chronic conditions like renal disease. What you eat severely affects everything about your body, and can go a long way to managing your renal disease. Aside from following your doctor’s orders and taking medications as directed, you can make the biggest impact of all simply by monitoring and properly planning your meals.Here are a few effective meal planning strategies for renal disease:
Research
More people than you could ever imagine simply do not know how to cook healthy meals, whether they have renal disease or not. You do not have to guess at what foods to cook, however. With the right research, you can easily learn about what and how to eat, as well as how to prepare your meals.
Start with your doctor and nutritionist and ask for a list of foods that you should and should not eat. They might have some pamphlets or recommendations for books or websites you can check out as well. Next, do research on your own using the library, book stores, and the internet. Look for kidney disease specific recipes and find what looks good to you.
Priorities
The first rule of any new resolution or lifestyle change is to keep your priorities in mind. It is too easy to fall back into old routines. Remember that this is about your health and comfort as well as the lifespan of some of your most vital organs. Keep in mind that you can avoid end stage renal disease and dialysis if you are proactive about following your doctor’s orders and keeping a healthy diet.
Help yourself by emptying your home of unhealthy foods and avoiding restaurants and other establishments that will tempt you into making poor food decisions. Make sure your friends and family are completely on board with your plans so they can help you stay on track.
Your Grocery Game
A lot of meal planning is centered on how you do your grocery shopping. Here are a few tips to help you navigate the most effective grocery game:
Make a list and stick to it: Make a meal plan for the week based on recipes and what you plan to eat. Do not forget to plan for all meals and snacks too. Make a list based off of that plan and don’t buy anything that isn’t on your list.
Outer limits: The healthiest groceries are typically found on the outside of the store. Do most of your shopping here, especially around the produce section, and avoid the aisles where the processed foods are as much as possible.
Eat before you go: If you go to the grocery store hungry, you are more likely to make poor decisions and impulse buys. Make sure you go to the grocery store after you have eaten.
Living with any chronic health condition can be a daunting and sometimes overwhelming experience. Eating is one of the hardest parts to figure out, and it can make the biggest difference in your overall health and wellness. These tips can make it easier to plan healthy meals with renal disease. For more ways to help with your renal disease click here.
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January 26, 2015
Creating Kidney Disease Meals
Living with kidney disease means making changes to your lifestyle, especially when it comes to your diet. There are big changes that need to be made to accommodate a kidney disease friendly diet. These changes might take a little while to get used to, but you will find that eating healthy is easy when you put your mind to it.Kidney Friendly Foods
To get started on your new kidney disease friendly diet, you want to do some research about what foods you need to avoid. You might consider talking to your doctor to get a list of foods to avoid, or see a nutritionist to get some more specified help with creating healthy meal plans. During your research, you will learn about a few common food additives or ingredients that you should avoid. The biggest of these is sodium. In every stage of kidney disease, it is recommended that you eliminate excess sodium from your diet. Since your kidneys are not working properly, they are unable to process and filter excess material such as sodium. All that sodium build up in your system can cause fluid retention, swelling, and even more life threatening conditions that you especially would want to avoid.
Meal Planning
The best tool you can use for any new diet is effective meal planning. Planning out each week at a time will help you stick to a healthier diet plan. Start by researching recipes that you would like to eat during the week for each meal of the day plus snacks. Knowing what you’re going to eat each day will eliminate last minute scrambles for meal preparation.
Do whatever you can to stick to your meal plan. After you have planned what you want eat for the week, you should make a grocery list and do your grocery shopping at the beginning of the week. If you have all of the supplies you need to make each meal, you are more likely to stick to your meal plan.
Make Everything Easier
Whatever you can do to make your meal plan easier, you will be more likely to follow through with the meal plan. Keeping an organized kitchen and preparing meals ahead of time can make your life and your new diet super simple. Make your lunches and separate out your snack servings and have them ready so all you have to do is grab and go. Set reminders for yourself if you need to leave something out in the morning to defrost so you are always prepared for the meal you planned for, instead of feeling forced to order out because of botched planning.
No matter what, make sure to follow all of your doctor’s orders. Whenever you start a new diet, you should speak to your doctor to make sure you are making the right moves. Especially when it comes to a chronic disease that has the potential to worsen fairly quickly, you should follow all instructions, take medications as directed, and follow up with appointments as necessary. With these tips, you can get a good start for your new kidney healthy diet. Don’t forget to check out my other blog posts.
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January 22, 2015
Almond Cookie Recipe
Almond Cookie 2015-01-19 17:26:21 Serves 24 A quick and easy almond cookie that will keep you on your renal diet.
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
8 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
8 min
Ingredients 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter 1/2 cup Sugar 1 Egg 1 1/4 cup Flour 3/4 cup Almonds 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
Instructions Preheat the oven to 400' F (200' C) Using a blender, grind the almonds into a fine powder. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the egg, almond flavoring, and almonds. Gradually mix in the flour until well blended. Drop by teaspoonful 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for about 8 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cookies are barely browned. Transfer to a rack to cool.
Notes NUTRIENT TOTALS Calories: 103.5 Protein: 2.0 g Carbohydrate: 10.0 g Dietary Fiber: .6 g Total Sugars: 4.4 g Total Fat: 6.4 Sodium: 3.811 mg Cholesterol: 17.9 mg Potassium: 42.3 mg
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Adapted from Allrecipes.com
Adapted from Allrecipes.com
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These are tasty and delicious. They do require a food processor or blender to crush the almonds.
Preheat the oven to 400′ F (200′ C)
Using a blender, grind the almonds into a fine powder.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the egg, almond flavoring, and almonds. Gradually mix in the flour until well blended.
Drop by teaspoonful 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for about 8 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cookies are barely browned.
Transfer to a rack to cool.
Print out the recipe for these almond cookies and enjoy!
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