Renal Diet Plan & Cookbook: The Optimal Nutrition Guide to Manage Kidney Disease

By Nicole Moore

There is no doubt that patients are tired of having physicians telling them what can and cannot eat. Nicole Moore has put together for the first time a kidney health gourmet diet and guide cookbook with detailed and well-laid out diet plans and recipes which will help patients, not just because they are kidney- and heart-healthy, but because they are mouth-watering.

The issues bothering around dialysis, transplants, and treatments of co-morbidities, living with chronic kidney disease can so devastating. For your diet, it is no mere substitutions to come about genuine change- and most individual need help achieving this.

 Nicole Moore has created kidney-friendly recipes that are delicious and nutritious. You choose what you like for her weekly changing menus. You can cook great meals in 30 minutes or less!

In this book, Renal Diet Plan & Cookbook: The Optimal Nutrition Guide to Manage Kidney Disease, all the ingredients are already pre-measured for you.

This dash Diet renal health book offers you an empowering, results-oriented renal diet cookbook with diet plans and recipes that help your kidneys function more optimally, providing you with ways to keep away from insidious options such as transplants or dialysis. This kidney healthy cookbook delivers easy, the effective nutritional solution to get you right on the track.

The recipes make your food more fun to cook, elegant to serve and amazing to taste. All the kidney-friendly recipes are surprisingly simple as there are no exotic seasonings or special gadgets involved, just careful selection of ingredients and the classic methods of haute cuisine. Only the results are exotic.

    Easy-Does-It meal plans for low-sodium, low-protein, or low-fat customization

    More than 125 delicious recipes to meet your nutritional needs based on which stage you are.

    Helpful and valuable nutritional facts for tracking calories, protein, sugar, fat, sodium, potassium, and phosphorus

The Renal Diet Plan & Cookbook is your essential, all-in-one renal diet cookbook giving you everything you need to take your kidney health into your own hands.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Oct 18, 2018

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AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

As a registered biochemist and nutritionist, I have come across individuals facing several health challenges, including high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and weight management. Over the years, I have come to realize that patients battling with renal disease are usually trying to manage other health problems at the same time. For instance, an individual who is suffering from kidney disease is likely trying to also manage his or her blood pressure, cholesterol level, blood sugar, and weight- at the same time.

Kidney disease is a number one cause of death in the United States. However, there is so much all of us can do to treat, control, and hamper the progression of the kidney, most particularly in the early stages. The earlier you are diagnosed and start being proactive to your specific health needs, the better your kidneys can excellently serve you. Untreated kidney disease becomes irreversible and exposes you to higher risk for heart disease and stroke. Therefore it is essential to detect kidney diseases early. Luckily, kidney disease can be treated excellently if it is discovered in the early stages.

A fundamental key to healthier kidneys resides in your diet. It is not an understatement to say how crucial it is to know the kind of foods that are healthier choices and which types you should stay away from- the ones that cause more harm. A renal diet, specifically in the early stages of kidney disease, centers on reducing protein, sodium, fat, and sugar. Sticking to a renal diet will help limit the amount of waste produced by your body, which ultimately helps your kidney work more effectively. Even little changes in your diet can help maintain your kidney function for a lengthened period of time and may equally help to stay away from dialysis treatment completely.

In the course of work with individuals who are in the early stages of kidney disease, I have observed at a close range how they have exceptionally improved their kidney function just by making a little behavioral and lifestyle changes discussed in this book, and following the renal diet offered.

And by trying the mouth-watering recipes in this book, you will know great foods that will support your health and reduce the work your kidneys need to perform in order to take of you optimally.

Let's greatly begin!

PART 1:

Chapter 1

YOUR KIDNEYS, YOUR KEYS TO HEALTH

1.  Knowing Your Kidney Disease

Kidney disease is becoming more pronounced in the United States, and thus we need to educate ourselves as much about it as we can. The more we learn about it by ourselves, the better we can do to take care of this critical bodily system. If you have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), education can give you the power to most successfully and effectively manage the disease. Once you have a complete knowledge of what chronic kidney disease is, you can start to take control of your budding health needs. Adopting healthy changes early in the stages of kidney disease will help to know how well you will take charge of your kidney health.

I am here to hold you by hand and guide you every step of the way. Just as it is common with every new process, it may appear overwhelming at the beginning. This chapter provides the basis for getting enlightened and will help you understand kidney disease as you start you embark on the road to a heartier kidney.

What Does the Kidneys Do For You?

Our kidneys are small in size, but they perform wonderful jobs to maintain our bodily balance. Kidneys are bean-shaped, almost the size of a fist, and are situated in the middle of the back, on the left and right sides of the spine, just below the rib cage. When everything is functioning accurately, the kidneys perform several functions such as:

- Filter waste substances from the blood

- Get rid of excess fluid or water from the body

- Secretes hormones to help manage blood pressure

- Induce bone marrow to produce red blood cells.

- Produce an active form of vitamin D that enhances strong and healthy bones.

Our kidneys are similar to a weighing balance, working to maintain accurate amounts of nutrients and minerals in the body at a particular point of time and in exact measure. When the kidneys begin malfunctioning, waste materials and toxins will start to build up in the body. AS kidneys start failing, they lose their capacity to filter out waste products, leading to kidney disease. The inability of the kidneys to carry out their tasks, place the burden on your shoulders; It becomes your responsibility to make changes to your diet so as to minimize the workload placed on the kidneys,  particularly in the early stages of kidney disease.

What Causes Kidney Disease?

There are various causes of kidney disease, ranging from physical injury or disorders that can harm the kidneys but the 2 top causes of kidney disease are:

1. Diabetes

2. High blood pressure

These fundamental conditions also place individuals at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Early treatment may not only cut down the progression of the disease but also lower your risk of developing heart disease or stroke.

Kidney disease can affect anybody, at any age, Hispanics, American Indians, and African Americans are at high risk for kidney failure, as these groups have a higher prevalence of high blood pressure and diabetes. Uncontrolled diabetes is the foremost cause of kidney disease. Diabetes can destroy kidneys and make them fail. Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce sufficient insulin or cannot utilize normal quantities of insulin efficiently, thereby causing the blood sugar levels to become high.

We digest protein, our bodies produce waste products. In the kidneys, millions of minute blood vessels known as capillaries act as filters.

As blood moves through the capillaries, the waste materials are filtered through urine. Substances like red blood cells and proteins are too large to pass through the capillaries and thus stay in the blood. Diabetes can destroy this process, and high levels of blood sugar can make the kidneys to filter excess blood. All these excess jobs overburden the kidneys. Over a period of time, the kidneys can begin to seep out and the proteins which our bodies require for optimal performance is lost in the urine. The presence of little amounts of protein in your urine is referred to as microalbuminuria. When kidney disease is diagnosed in the early stages, there are several treatments that may hinder the aggravation of the disease. If the kidney disease is discovered at the later stages, large amounts of proteins in your urine, known as macroalbuminuria, can cause end-stage renal disease.

The second leading source of kidney disease is high blood pressure, also called hypertension. One in three Americans is at the risk for Kidney disease as a result of high blood pressure. Though there is no cure for high blood pressure, some pills, a low-sodium diet, and physical activity can reduce blood pressure.

The kidneys help to control blood pressure, but when blood pressure gets high, the heart is made to work under stressed condition pumping blood. High blood pressure can destroy the blood vessels in the kidneys, lessening their capacity to work optimally. When the force of blood flow is high, blood vessels begin to enlarge so that the blood can flow more freely. The enlarging and scarring usually weakens the blood vessels all over the whole body, kidneys inclusive. And when the blood vessels of the kidneys are damaged, they may not eliminate the waste and excess fluid from the body, causing an unsafe cycle, as the excess fluid in the blood vessels can increase blood pressure even more.

Cardiovascular disease is the foremost cause of death in the United States. The heart performs an outstanding job pumping oxygen and nutrient-rich blood through our arteries to important organs-including the brain and its tissues. When kidney disease happens, that process can be interfered with, and the risk of developing heart disease becomes so high.

Cardiovascular is a general term for all conditions that may harm the heart and the blood vessels, including heart attack, coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, and heart failure.

Complications from kidney disease may develop and can cause heart disease.

With diabetes, too much blood sugar remains in the bloodstream. The high blood sugar can destroy the blood vessels in the kidneys and other parts of the body. And since high blood pressure is a resultant effect from diabetes, the excess pressure can weaken the walls of the blood vessels, which can eventually result in a stroke or heart attack.

Other conditions like drug abuse and some autoimmune diseases can equally bring harm to the kidneys. As a matter of fact, every medication we swallow into our body has gone through the kidney for filtration. If the medication is not used according to health care provider's instructions, or it is an illicit substance such as cocaine, heroin or the