Easy Renal Diet Cookbook: Ultimate Guide To Manage Kidney Disease

By Laura Evans

Improve your kidney with a healthy meal plan you are about to discover in this Renal diet cookbook. The ultimate guide to manage and repair your kidney with accurate information and total guidance that summarize the totality of kidney disease.
With this easy renal diet cook, you don’t need to get confused about what kind of food is good or bad for the kidney. You will find a comprehensive list of low sodium, low phosphorus and low potassium meal/recipes that will help your kidneys function more effectively and also help you manage your kidney disease and avoid option of dialysis or transplant.This renal diet cookbook is a simplified and efficient nutritional package to get you right on track.

A comprehensive introduction that covers the most important things you need to know about kidney disease and how to avoid possible dialysis or kidney transplant.
Over 100 delicious recipes with nutritional information for tracking calories, sodium, potassium etc.
Easy-to-follow meal plans for needful protein, low-sodium, and low-fat.

Learn how to manage your kidney disease and make the kidney function more effectively.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Oct 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9783966338370

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INTRODUCTION

By comparison, adults are 30 times more prone to develop kidney disease than children. About 27 million American adults suffers from Kidney disease, only one out of every 70,000 children- below the age of 20 experience kidney disease. The risk of having a kidney disease increases with age.

Kidney disease rank among one of the leading cause of death in the United States. Though much can be done to influence and control the progressing of kidney disease at the very early stages. When your kidney is left untreated, a lot of damage can be done, the earlier you start attending to your kidney the better chance you have to effectively treat it. Following a kidney diet may delay total kidney failure and also bolster kidney function. Diet is a very important aspect of treatment for kidney disease and the impact can help you slow down the progression rate. People living with kidney disease must strictly stick to a kidney diet to reduce the amount of waste in their blood so that the kidney can function effectively.

As a dietitian, with expert experience, I have worked with many kidney disease patient and other patient battling with different health issues. I am sure you will find a lot of useful information in this book. I have helped countless number of kidney disease patient manage the physical symptoms and also deal with the emotional stress it can bring. At the very early stage of kidney disease, my advice to patients is to quickly make changes to their eating lifestyle.

The Renal diet is one that is low in protein, sodium and phosphorous. This book provides patients with information to have a better understanding of the function of the kidney, kidney failure, kidney diseases and diet information such as dairy choice with low phosphorus, food low in sodium, fruit with low potassium and many more. This cookbook stress the importance of consuming limited potassium, sodium, phosphorus and calcium with the right amount of protein.

Let’s get started!

Know About Your Kidney

The kidneys organ are two in number, looking like the shaped of a bean, each about the size of a fist. They are located on either side of the spine, just below the rib cage.

Why Are the Kidneys So Important?

One of the kidney's major function is the removal of excess fluid and waste product from the body. These excess fluid and waste product are discharged through your urine. The urine production involves a high degree of complicated steps to discharged waste and re-absorption. This steps are crucial in maintaining a stable and balance body chemicals.

The kidneys also discharge acid produced by the body cells and retain a healthy balance of salts, water and minerals—like potassium, phosphorus, calcium and sodium—in the blood. The hormone that the kidney produce also affects the role of other organs. The kidney produce hormone that assist in the control of calcium metabolism and maintain blood pressure. It also produce hormone that stimulates red blood cell production and keep your bones healthy and strong.

The kidney consist of about a million filtering units called nephrons and each of the nephrons contain glomerulus. The glomerulus function to filters the blood, and the 

tube-shaped structure (tubule) give back needed substances to your blood and get rid of wastes. The glomerulus filters any blood that enters it and the remaining liquid go through the tubule.

A healthy functioning kidney filter up to half cup of blood per minute, removes excess water and the final product being the urine we excrete. The urine is transported from the kidney to the bladder through the ureters.

Function Of The Kidney

Regulate the manufacture of red blood cells

Manufacture an create a form of vitamin D that boost strong and healthy bones

Discharge hormones that regulate blood pressure

Regulate the body's fluids

Get rid of drugs from the body

Get rid of waste products from the body

What is kidney disease?

About 26 million American adults suffers from Kidney disease. Kidney disease can be related to a situation when your kidney is damaged and can no longer carry out its function. There are series of issues that can cause a damage to the kidney, like high blood pressure, diabetes and series of any other chronic conditions. Living with a kidney disease can cause other related health problems- such as malnutrition, weak bones, nerve damage among others. 

When you have kidney disease over a period of time and it gets worsen, your kidneys may stop functioning totally. What this translate to is, you will require a dialysis to carry out the function of the kidneys. Dialysis is treatment procedure that filters toxins, excess water and solutes from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer carry out these functions naturally, using the help of a machine. Dialysis cannot cure kidney disease, but it can increase life span. 

Types And Causes Of Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease

This is the most common form of kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease describes the gradual loss of kidney function over a long period of time. It is commonly caused by high blood pressure.

High blood pressure pose a real danger to the kidney in a way that it elevates the pressure on the glomeruli. Glomeruli is responsible for cleaning the blood, with a constant increase in blood pressure, it destroys these vessels which cause a decline in the kidney function.

A kidney transplant may be another treatment option depending on your circumstances.

Diabetes is another one of the many causes of chronic kidney disease. Diabetes is a kind of disease that cause high blood sugar. The constant increase level of sugar in blood pressure destroys these vessels which cause a decline in kidney function of properly cleaning the blood vessels. The effect is the kidney becomes overloaded with toxic.

Kidney stones

Kidney stones is also a widely known kidney problem. This is a situation where some substance and other mineral properties in the blood obstruct the kidneys, forming solid masses (stones).During urination, kidney stones are usually being excreted,

they are not very painful though and hardly lead to any significant problems.

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Glomerulonephritis

Glomerulonephritis is worsening of a situation of the glomeruli. Glomeruli are tiny little structures located in the kidneys which