The Hearty Renal Diet Cookbook Delicious Kidney-Friendly Recipes To Manage Kidney Disease: Delicious Kidney-Friendly Recipes To Manage Kidney Disease

By Ida Butler

The renal diet is an effective way of addressing kidney or renal disease.  It is important to your kidney treatment process. Kidney disease occur when your kidneys are no longer working as they should. Renal diet will enable the kidneys work better and prevent kidney failure by limiting the amount of waste produced in the body.  It will help protect your kidneys from further damage and make it easier for the kidneys to carry out their food processing function, and promote kidney health.  Additionally, certain complications that come with kidney disease such as bone disease, high blood potassium, fluid overload and weight loss are considerably avoided, when on a renal diet. It also helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

As important as this diet sounds, many people who need it still live in dread of it. They think they will be subjected to a menu of bland and tasteless dishes, with many foods not to eat than to eat! However, this cookbook has been written to help you understand that, with a little modification to your renal diet, you can still enjoy tasty and interesting meals, every time! 

There are 100 recipes that are easy to follow, with every day ingredients and nutritional value on every recipe to enable you track your salt intake and other nutrients. What's more, these tasty recipes cover a broad range of exciting categories like breakfasts, soups and stews, snacks and sides, vegetables, seafood, poultry, meats, salads and desserts!

And there's more! This renal cookbook provides you with vital information on the renal diet, helping you to understand your kidneys and its intricate functions in a simplistic way, its symptoms and diagnosis as well as shedding a rich light on the nutrients that make up the renal diet. Guided by your renal dietician, you can adapt menus and prepare mouthwatering meals that address your specific needs. 

So get this book, have fun and enjoy great meals within the dietary guidelines that is recommended for you! 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Chssm
• Release date: Jul 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834159934

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INTRODUCTION

The renal diet is an effective way of addressing kidney or renal disease.  It is important to your kidney treatment process. Kidney disease occur when your kidneys are no longer working as they should. Renal diet places minimal demand on the kidney which can help to enhance its function.  Additionally, certain complications that come with kidney disease such as bone disease, high blood potassium, fluid overload and weight loss are considerably avoided, when on a renal diet. It also helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

It is a straightforward diet that is easy to understand, and easy to start. This is because renal diet is not about consuming specialty foods, but only about making reasonable adjustments to your daily meals that includes, fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains.Some of these changes includes; adding 1 vegetable to each meal, cutting meat consumption to 2 servings per day, substituting high-fat desserts with fresh fruits, having low fat milk instead of soda or sugary beverage and taking fat- free dressings and condiments with your vegetable meals.

The point is that eating correctly is essential for kidney health. People with kidney disease must monitor intakes of sodium, phosphorus and potassium especially, and this is encapsulated in the renal diet. Other dietary adjustments like limiting fluid intake and animal proteins may also be needed. To make this diet work for you, you’ll need to work closely with your renal dietician and try to live a healthy lifestyle as much as you can. You’ll be making changes to your diet, as well as exercising regularly, reducing alcohol intake, reducing stress and quitting smoking, where necessary. Do not worry, however, this cookbook contains plentiful information to guide you in your renal diet journey, as well as over a 100 delicious recipes that covers a rich and broad category. Follow me!

PART 1: KIDNEY AND KIDNEY DISEASES

The Kidney And Its Importance

Our kidneys are crucial to having to healthy body. We have 2 kidneys; each one is located on the left and right side of our spine, just below the rib cage. We cannot feel them by touch because they lie very deep within our abdomen. They are shaped like a bean and perform an important function of filtering unwanted waste and excess fluid from the blood through urination.

The kidneys also:

Help to maintain a balance of water, minerals and salts in the blood.

Produce hormones that affect blood and bones.

Help to regulate growth in children.

Help to regulate blood pressure.

Signals to  the body to produce red blood cells or control red blood cell production

Regulate electrolyte (salt) concentrations

Every day, we eat different kinds of food, and in different quantities. These food must be converted into energy. The process of continuously converting our food into energy often produces harmful waste materials. This process also causes a variation in the quantity of fluids, electrolytes and acids in our body. First, unwanted toxic by-products in the body must be flushed out, otherwise it could lead to death. Secondly, the levels of water, electrolyte and acids in the body must be regulated and rightly balanced for optimum health. The kidney performs these two key functions simultaneously.

A kidney is made up of millions of tiny units called nephrons. Nephrons consist of glomeruli and tubules.Glomeruli are clusters of small blood vessels that filter excess fluids and wastes, while tubules are minute tubes that collect the waste to form urine.Healthy kidneys filter about half a cup of blood every minute and about 200 quarts of blood every day to produce 1 -2 quarts of urine daily.  Urine is composed of waste and excess fluid.

Kidney disease occurs when the nephrons can no longer filter the blood because they are damaged. A failing kidney cannot also remove waste and toxins as it should. Therefore, if the kidneys are damaged, it means that toxins and waste will build up in the blood, which may result in puffy eyes, poor sleep, swollen ankles, and shortness of breath, among others. Kidney disease is a life threatening condition that must be attended to, once diagnosed.

Understanding Kidney Disease

It has been estimated that kidney disease affects 26 million adults in the United States alone.Globally, 1 in 10 people suffer from some form of kidney disease. Kidney disease also called renal disease, refers to damage on the kidneys that reduces its function. Kidney disease is silent. A large number of people who suffer from it do not know that they have it, until most of the kidney function is lost. The reason they remain largely unaware, is because the symptoms of the disease are not easily noticeable and it is only when about 70% of kidney function is lost that the symptoms become apparent. There are 2 main types of kidney disease; acute renal disease (ARF) and Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD). 

Acute Kidney Disease

This describes thesudden deterioration of kidney function. It is also known as Acute Renal Failure (ARF) or Acute Renal Injury (ARI).  It usually occurs in a matter of hours or days, and mostly affects people who are already very sick in the hospital. It must be treated right away, otherwise it might progress to a life- threatening condition. Some of the time, however, acute kidney failure will get better, but may progress to CKD if the patient had suffer from kidney problems before. Generally, acute renal failure can occur as a result of:

Sudden reduction of blood circulation to the kidneys which could be caused by surgeries, X-ray dyes or accidents.

Direct injury to the kidneys.

Damage from certain drugs.

Enlarged prostrate that can obstructs urine flow.

Your body experiencing shockduring sepsis, an infection

Pregnancy complications, such pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.

Autoimmune diseases. An attack of the immune system can cause ARI.

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Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD)

This describes a slow and progressive deterioration of kidney function. It occurs when the kidneys are no longer able to clean toxins and waste