The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook: Over 150 Delicious Kidney-Friendly Meals to Ensure You Manage Your Kidney Disease

By Michele Ferris

In this book Michele Ferris has done an excellent job in educating patients about their disease, showing why watching your diet is essential and offering mouth-watering recipes that encourage compliance and fun!

There is no doubt that a kidney disease diagnosis can be overwhelming, but you are not alone. Almost 26 million adults are affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), but there is hope for you: your diet! In The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook renal dietitian, Michele Ferris provides you dietary plans to establish long-term dietary changes to slow the progression of the kidney disease.  She knows that it can be so frustrating and confusing to figure out which foods to eat and which to stay away from. In her comprehensive renal diet, she details recipes that keep your potassium, sodium, and phosphorus levels under control.

The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook eliminates the vagueness and constant worry of figuring out what foods to eat, with:

-Kidney-friendly recipes that are delicious and nutritious. You choose what you like from her weekly changing menus. You can cook great meals in 30 minutes or less!

-Recipe modifications for dialysis patients

-Helpful Frequently Asked Questions about managing chronic kidney disease

The delicious recipes in The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook includes: Spring Green Omelet, Delicious French Toast, Chinese Chicken, Turkey and Couscous Stuffed Bell Peppers, Peppered Creamy Beer and Rice, Mustard & Leek Pork Tenderloin, Filipino Style Shrimp Noodles, Sweet Chicken Stir-Fry, Spiced Apple Cake, Spanish Crunchy Tofu Stir-Fry, Turnip and Rutabaga Mash, Fish Tacos with Vegetable Stew, Shrimp and Greens and Garden Crustless Quiche and much more!

More than a recipe book, The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook is your action plan to kick-start a kidney-healthy diet.

This book contains over 150 Delicious Kidney-Friendly Meals to Ensure You Manage Your Kidney Disease.

In this book, you will discover how to drastically improve your kidney function in less than 14 days just making a few changes to your diet!

If you are ready to make life-changing health decisions that will give you freedom from chronic pain, then What Are You Waiting For? Scroll Up and Order Your Copy Right Now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Nov 25, 2018

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome on board!

Making a choice to change your diet and lifestyle after a diagnosis of kidney disease is an immense turnaround. You may have purchased this book for own use or for a loved one, whatever the case might be, the most important thing is that you have made the right decision.

By making the right decisions in conjunction with your physician and dietitian, it is feasible to make a huge difference to how you feel, along with the signs you are going through. For the fact that the major function of the kidneys to filter out the waste, poisons, and fluids in your body, it is no surprise that selecting the best foods and ingredients can lessen some of the strain on your kidneys.

Having bought this book, you already aware that a holistic approach to treatment and management of kidney disease is so critical and that medical advice and treatment from professional healthcare providers is a must. If you are not sure of where to go next to your kitchen, this book offers to help you out at all times.

Inside the pages of this book, we summarize kidney disease and the different stages as well as the foods recommended, and those that should be reduced and even stay away from in each stage.

Each recipe details out the dietary information that you should be on the lookout for, including sodium, protein, potassium, and phosphorus. All the meals have been created to be delicious and healthy so that they can derive pleasure in them by individuals with kidney disease and also the whole family.

Thank you for buying this book and we hope that the information and kidney-friendly recipes provided can help you get started, or continue, the journey to enhance your wellbeing and live good.

CHAPTER ONE

KIDNEY DISEASE

If you do purchase this informative book, it is certain that either you or your loved one may be going through the symptoms associated with kidney disease. This chapter details the functions of your kidneys and also some of the causes and signs of kidney diseases. The cheering news is that if you are free from the disease or you are in the early stages, you can take proactive measures to change your eating and lifestyle habits so as to maintain healthy functioning of your kidneys for as long as you are alive. Similarly, if you are at the last stage of the disease, you will have come to know that changing your dietary habits has become so paramount. This chapter aims to offer you with the information you will ever need to fully understand each phase of the kidney disease.

Let's start!

OUR KIDNEYS:

In spite of the minute size, the kidneys carry out an array of functions which are essential for the body to perform optimally. These vital functions include:

-Filtration of excess fluids and waste from the blood

- Production of renin, an enzyme in control of blood pressure.

-managing calcium and phosphorus levels by absorption and excretion.

Sadly, when kidney disease attains a chronic stage these functions seized to be performed. Nevertheless, with the appropriate treatment and lifestyle, it is feasible to put the symptoms under management and go on living hassle-free life. This is more possible in the earlier the stages of the kidney disease.

CAUSES OF KIDNEY DISEASE:

Regrettably, 10% of all adults above the age of 20 will encounter some kind of kidney disease in the course of their lives. There are various treatments for kidney disease, which eventually based on the cause of the disease. The following are possible causes of kidney disease.

Diabetes: In the United States and several other countries where the Typical American Diet (elaborated in chapter 2) holds sway, the numero uno cause of kidney disease is high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. These two diseases are either entirely avoidable or treatable when occurred. It is crystal clear that once the root cause has been treated correctly, kidney disease challenges can also fritter away.

Glomerulonephritis: Injury to the glomeruli (the kidney filters in your body), impedes the capacity of the kidneys to filter waste products. This can be as a result of damage to the immune system and if this is the cause, it can be handled with right medication.

Glomerulonephritis can either be acute glomerulonephritis (The one experienced for a short period of time) or chronic glomerulonephritis (The one experienced for a longer period of time. However, in chronic glomerulonephritis, opportunistic problems can spring up, for instance, organ damage, hypertension and finally chronic kidney disease.

Acute Renal Failure/Acute Kidney Injury: Abrupt damage or kidney failure can be as a result of a quick loss of blood to the kidneys, sepsis or even serious dehydration. Infection, poison and certain drugs are also known to cause acute kidney problems.

Sudden Blockage: Tumors, injuries, enlarged prostate in men and above all, kidney stones can prevent urine from moving through the kidneys the way it supposes to. This can lead to appetite loss, nausea, lack of concentration, extreme fatigue, swelling in the lower extremities, disorientation, and flank pain.

Eclampsia: This can be witnessed at a time of pregnancy when the placenta performs below the optimum level, thus causing high blood pressure and at times leading to this kidney issues.

Breakdown of Muscle Tissue: Under severe pressure, for instance, when running a marathon or performing an activity that demands huge exertion, the body begins to break down muscle tissue after it has used all other obtainable fuel.

If this persists uncontrolled, an excess protein referred to as myoglobin will definitely end up in the bloodstream, hence subjecting the kidneys to unwarranted strain which may eventually lead to further implications.

Immune System: Normal immune system diseases can cause kidney problems such as hepatitis B, hepatitis B, lupus, HIV and AIDS. These can bring about what is referred to as chronic kidney, any kind of kidney disease that lasts for 3 months or more. Often lots of individuals experiencing immune disease will not see noticeable symptoms of the kidney disease until it gets to a chronic stage; this can be unsafe because it is more difficult to control once it has gotten to this stage.

Extreme Urinary Tract Infections: Urinary tract infections that take place within the kidney instead of the bladder are called pyelonephritis and happen when a traditional urinary tract infects left unattended to for it to spread into the upper part of urinary tract system. This leads to scarring in the kidneys which can cause severe defects in kidney performance.

Streptococcal Infections: Generally known as a strep infection, this bacterium can infect the throat and also the numerous layers of the skin, the middle ear, the sinuses, or even in a more extreme case, a pervasive fierce rash known as scarlet fever. This bacterium is observed to stay in the glomeruli (filters in the kidneys) getting infected.

Polycystic Kidney Disease: This kind of kidney disease is usually transferred from the parent to the child and brings about cysts filled with fluid to form on the kidneys.

Birth Defects: Depending on the seriousness of the defect, kidney disease could form easily as the kidneys do not function accurately or as a result of an impediment in the urinary tract prior to birth.

Symptoms:

The symptoms of kidney disease differ extensively and it is vital that you go for professional diagnosis. The common symptoms listed below may be a sign of the kidney disease:

Change in Urination Patterns: This is the well-known indicator of chronic kidney disease. If you noticed that out of blue, you are getting up most often at night to pass urine or if the volume of urine passed obviously increases or appears pale, then it is recommended that you see a physician. Similarly, if your urine turns foamy or bubbly, contain blood, or considerably reduces in volume and appears dark, these may also be signs that the kidneys are not functioning as they should.

Swelling: chronic kidney implies that your kidneys can not filter waste products or liquids correctly and this can lead to a pronounced swelling of the hands, face, feet, ankles or legs. This can be predominantly difficult for individuals.

Fatigue: Healthy working kidneys secrete erythropoietin, a hormone that regulates the levels of oxygen in the blood. The disease interferes with the ability of the kidneys to secrete this hormone, hence leading to insufficient oxygen in the blood. As there is an inadequate supply of oxygen to the brain or other muscles in the body, fatigue and lethargy are encountered. This is a type of anemia and can be exceptionally devastating if not handled with utmost care.

Rashes: This is a resultant consequent streptococcal infection as mentioned in the causes section.

Uremia: Bad breath which can smell of ammonia is at times witnessed as a result of waste materials not being effected by the kidneys. If experiencing uremia, individuals will usually note that foods they are used to consume change in taste.

Nausea or Vomiting: If uremia is not treated, it can also cause nausea and vomiting over a long period of time. This form of vomiting is not often treatable with common sickness pills.

Difficulties in Breathing: Too much fluid that cannot be filtered by the kidneys cam spread to the lungs, thereby causing breathing difficulty. This can be particularly challenging