Renal Diet Cookbook: 100 Simple & Delicious Kidney-Friendly Recipes To Manage Kidney Disease (CKD) And Avoid Dialysis (The Kidney Disease Cookbook)

By Aaron Jones

Living and eating healthy after being diagnosed with stage 1-4 chronic kidney disease can be overwhelming. Learning to make the necessary lifestyle adjustments, discovering how to manage chronic kidney disease and keeping the kidneys healthy becomes important for your health, general wellbeing and longevity. This book addresses the menace affecting about 26 million adults with proven and effective steps to efficiently manage chronic kidney disease and slow kidney damage. 

This book will help you figure out what you can eat and cannot eat with a comprehensive meal guide and 100 delicious, efficient and easy to make recipes that will help you live better, healthier and longer. For easier access, the recipes in this book have been categorized into sub-categories, such as; Breakfast Recipes, Lunch Recipes, Dinner Recipes, Chicken & Turkey Recipes, Pork Recipes, Salads, Seafood, Beverages, Desserts, Snack & Nibbles, Staples, Sauces & Seasoning and Plant Based Recipes.

This Renal Diet Cookbook contains a meal guide to kidney-friendly eating, lifestyle changes to prevent and control chronic kidney disease and several delicious kidney friendly recipes with complete nutritional information per serving (such as: precise amount of calories, protein, carbohydrates, dietary fibers, fat, sodium, potassium and phosphorus) and servings per recipes to help you eat your way to good health and enjoy life to the fullest. 
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: MarkHollis
• Release date: Feb 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9788832532913

Aaron Jones

I was born in Ville Platte, Louisiana. I stayed in Eunice, Louisiana, until I was eight years old. I came to Oakland, California, with my grandmother, Lubertha Trammell, to be with the other members of our family. My first experience with poetry came in the fifth grade. My teacher, Mr. Muckelroy, introduced me to creative writing and poetry, and after listening to him read a poem by Carl Sandberg, I knew that a new avenue of expression was opened to me. When I wrote my first poem, called “The Sun,” I found a way to give voice to my feelings that I could not always mange to do verbally. I have been writing and living poetry since that day. I have also done poetry readings and taught poetry in the Oakland school system as a way to impart this love of writing into younger children as well.

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Introduction

You were born with two kidneys, and each kidney is seated just above your waist on opposite sides of your spine. The kidneys perform the important tasks of helping you control your blood pressure and the filtration of unneeded water and waste out of your blood every day. When your kidneys are healthy, they produce an active form of vitamin D that the body needs for bone health and other things. The kidneys also produce erythropoietin, a chemical which instructs your body to make red blood cells. In their healthy state, the kidneys produce renin which controls blood pressure in your body and the kidneys also keep a balance of blood minerals and water such as (phosphorus, potassium and sodium). In addition, after exposure to medications or chemicals, muscle activity and digestion, your kidneys has the responsibility of getting rid of waste from the blood.

When the kidneys are damaged, the daily blood filtration process is compromised and excess fluid and waste materials can start to accumulate in your body. As a result, this can cause breath shortness, lack of sleep, loss of energy, weakness, throwing up and swelling around your ankles. If not controlled early, the damage to the kidney is usually progressive. The damage can worsen and your kidneys may stop working in the end, which can be a serious threat to life. 

Understanding The Kidney Disease

The kidneys carry out the complex filtration system in our bodies - if your kidneys stop working unexpectedly, it is a medical condition known as acute renal failure or acute kidney injury. Acute renal failure can be a threat to life and calls for intensive medical treatment. Nonetheless, it may be reversible. It happens when the kidney loses the ability to get rid of excess waste, fluids and salts from the blood, which happens to be its core function. Waste, excess fluids and electrolytes accumulate in the body when the kidney loses its ability to filter body fluids and this can be a dire situation.

There are several known reasons why acute renal failure can happen such as: obstruction of the urinary tract, autoimmune renal diseases (like interstitial nephritis and acute nephritic syndrome), specific medications or toxins that causes toxic kidney injury, sudden or severe dehydration, acute tubular necrosis (ATN) and reduced blood flow (via surgery, serious illness, septic shock, hemorrhage, injury, burns and low blood pressure). Acute renal failure can also be caused by blood clots within the blood vessels of your kidney caused by certain complications and anomalies such as: infections (like acute pyelonephritis and septicemia), scleroderma, reaction to transfusion, malignant hypertension, idiopathic thrombocytopenic thrombotic purpura (ITTP), hemolytic uremic syndrome and occasionally pregnancy (which includes placenta abruption and placenta previa). 

Chronic Kidney Disease

Over thirty million American adults have chronic kidney disease and several millions of other American adults are at high risk. When the kidneys continuously lose the ability to perform its basic functions over a long period of time, it is known as chronic kidney disease, otherwise known as chronic renal disease. The deterioration of chronic kidney disease to kidney failure and untimely death can be prevented if detected and treated early. Heart disease is the main cause of death for every person with chronic kidney disease. Tests such as serum creatinine and urine albumin can be used to detect chronic kidney disease. Persistent protein in the urine (proteinuria) means chronic kidney disease is present. Seniors, American Indians, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, African Americans, people with a family history of kidney failure, people that are hypertensive and diabetic are highly susceptible to chronic kidney disease.

Causes Of CKD

Two-thirds of chronic kidney disease conditions are caused by hypertension and diabetes. Hypertension or high blood pressure happens when the blood pressure against blood vessel walls increases.

If hypertension is not well corrected, it can lead to chronic kidney disease, strokes and heart attacks. Diabetes occurs when the sugar content in the blood is too high and this causes much damage to the eyes, nerves, blood vessels, heart and the kidneys. Other conditions that can cause kidney damage are: repeated urinary infections, obstructions (caused by tumors or enlarged prostate gland in a man, kidney stones), lupus and related diseases that compromises the immune system of the body, polycystic kidney diseases which causes damage to the surrounding kidney tissues and forms large cysts in the kidney and other inherited diseases. The third most common cause of chronic kidney disease is glomerulonephritis which is a group of disease that causes damage to the kidney's ability to filter and cause inflammation. 

Symptoms Of CKD

Symptoms may be difficult to detect at the initial stages of chronic kidney disease, but as kidney disease advances the symptoms becomes more obvious and may be severe. It is possible to notice any of the following at the initial stages:

✓  Urinating more frequently, particularly at night

✓  Having itchy and dry skin

✓  Early morning puffiness around the eyes

✓  Swollen ankles and feet

✓  Night time muscle cramps

✓  Insomnia

✓  Lack of appetite

✓  Lack of concentration

✓  Fatigue and energy loss

Diagnosis

Medically there are various ways to detect kidney disease by observing the symptoms, checking for signs and undergoing tests.