Stopping Kidney Disease Food Guide: A recipe, nutrition and meal planning guide to treat the factors driving the progression of incurable kidney disease

By Lee Hull

This renal and kidney diet guide is for kidney or renal patients who want to try to slow or stop the progression of incurable kidney disease. The chronic kidney disease diet and CKD recipes and eating plan in this book are based on the research in Stopping Kidney Disease, the highest rated book on kidney disease which has benefited hund

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kidneyhood.org
• Release date: Jun 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780578493633

Lee Hull

Lee Hull has been a kidney patient for the past twenty-two years, the first twelve of which he spent trying to cure an incurable kidney disease. Lee went into remission ten years ago and has stayed in remission using the treatment and diet plan in this book.

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Stopping

Kidney Disease

Food Guide

Lee Hull

Stopping Kidney Disease Food Guide

Copyright © 2019 by Lee Hull and Kidneyhood.org

Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Medical Advice

While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in writing and preparing this book, no representation or warranties exist with the respect to the accuracy and completeness of this book, or that the contents apply to your current health or form of disease. The advice, research, diet and plan may not be appropriate for all patients. A medical doctor should always assist you in making any treatment decisions and patients should always be under the care and supervision of a physician. You should never make treatment decisions on your own without consulting a physician. Neither the author nor the publisher are liable for any medical decisions made based on the contents of this book. This includes special, incidental, consequential, or any other kinds of damages or liability.

Patients should always be under the care of a physician and defer to their physician for any and all treatment decisions. This book is not meant to replace a physician’s advice, supervision, and counsel. No information in this book should be construed as medical advice. All medical decisions should be made by the patient and a qualified physician. This book is for educational purposes only.

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First edition, May 2019

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ISBN: 978-0-578-49363-3

About the Author

Lee Hull has been a kidney patient for the past twenty-two years, the first twelve of which he spent trying to cure an incurable kidney disease. Lee went into remission ten years ago and has stayed in remission using the treatment and diet plan in this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction Why another kidney diet or meal planning book?

Patient-to-Patient, the fastest and best hope for us

Apathy

Math and GFR

Chapter 1 Understanding the basics or ‘Kidney Factors’

The factor approach to slowing kidney disease

Objections

Back to the Factors

Chapter 2 Saving yourself and 10,000 other patients from malnutrition

Unique to kidney patients

Atom bomb time

Understanding the difference between intake and processing malnutrition

How much is too much protein?

What do we need to do?

Chapter 3 What is the KDA?

Reasons for KDA

Diet basics

Chapter 4 Make it easy on yourself: a few tips before you start

Keeping track is mandatory.

What you need to know about breakfasts, Sundays, and dessert

Sundays (or whatever day works for you)

Always be thinking How can I make it easier?

Desserts

Family

The rule of four

Attitude/perspective is everything

Water

Focus on the real goal

Chapter 5 Intro to recipe section

Good Karma

Reward

Two reminders before going forward:

Breakfast

Blåbärssoppa

Creamy Breakfast Polenta with Stewed Blackberries

Stewed Cinnamon Apples

Huevo Ranchero

Shakshuka

Fruit bowl

Pecan and Fruit Bowls

Green Pineapple Smoothie

Basic Fruit Smoothie

Lunch

Beet Salad with Candied or Spiced Pecans

Corn and Chile Soup with Smoky Collard Greens

Smoky Collard Greens

Tostada Salad

Pumpkin Chili

Baked Sweet Potato with Side Salad

Pumpkin Soup with Chorizo Mushrooms & Corn

Thai Pineapple Salad with Carrot Cashew Dressing

Vegetable Masala

Gumbo Z’Herbes

Dinner

Portobello Steaks with Twice-Cooked Mashed Potatoes (or cauliflower) and Balsamic Arugula Salad

Pineapple and Vegetable Kebabs

Charred Romaine with Caesar Dressing

Jackfruit Carnitas Tacos

Tortilla Soup

Ginger-Garlic Vegetable Ramen Bowls

Main Dish Salad

Mushroom Bourguignon

Bread

Pepper Salad

Watermelon Gazpacho

Marinated Carrot Salad

Jackfruit Crab Cakes

Louisiana Remoulade

Vinegar Slaw

Italian Pesto Zucchini Noodles

Vegetable Fajitas

Mexican Street Corn Salad

Desserts

Strawberry (or Any Fruit) Ice Cream

Watermelon-Blueberry Sorbet

Macadamia Freezer Fudge

Pears in Wine Sauce

Coconut Macaroons

Raspberry Fool

Pineapple with Rum Sauce

Fresh Fruit with Vanilla Syrup

Blackberry Sangria Granita

Drinks and Snacks

Cherry Lemonade

Hibiscus Tea

Blackberry Iced Tea

Matcha Latte

Fruit and Trail Mix

Milk Substitute

Drink Nutrition

Meal planning examples

Sample Meal Planning

Summary

Most Common Foods

References

Introduction

Why another kidney diet or meal planning book?

It’s simple. We as patients want our kidneys to last as long as possible, and we want to live longer and better lives. We want a cure, but if we can’t get a cure we want to slow the kidney disease progression to a snail’s pace. That’s what we want and deserve.

The problem is today’s kidney diets have nothing in common with our real goals.

Let us list some reasons why it’s time for a change:

Current kidney disease diets are based on information that is 50 years old (1960s and 1970s) and not on today’s latest research (2018/2019).

Current kidney disease diets act as if only three issues matter: potassium, phosphorus, and sodium. This concept is not true and does not stand up to even the smallest amount of scrutiny.

Current kidney disease diets are full of conflicting ideas that may result in more problems than they solve. For example, these diets use meat as a source of protein. The metabolism of dietary protein creates uremia, uremic toxins, acidosis, increased renal acid load, and inflammation, all of which increase the speed of kidney disease progression. Yes, we did limit sodium, potassium, and phosphorus, but at what cost? Did we gain anything by managing three conditions, but creating three or four more? In many cases, we contribute to uremic malnutrition instead of preventing it.

Current kidney diets do not address issues like antioxidants, acidosis, renal acid load, keto acids, polyphenols, advanced glycation end (AGE) products, inflammation, and the list goes on. Yet, all of these factors can speed or slow kidney disease progression.

The bottom line is that the current kidney diets are killing us. I am not being dramatic; keep reading and I will explain.

Current diets keep our renal acid load and protein workload the same throughout our disease progression. No recognition is made that our kidneys can no longer handle this workload. This fact speeds the progression of kidney disease over time.

I admit to being touchy on this topic after my experience as a 20+ year kidney patient. I mention this because I have spent more than two decades in the trenches and have, by almost all standards, been a very successful kidney patient. I have maintained my kidneys for over 20 years, despite having an incurable form of kidney disease.

The recipes and eating plan in this book are based on the research in Stopping Kidney Disease. This book is meant to be a companion book to Stopping Kidney Disease. Hundreds of studies and medical trials point us in the same direction over and over again. Some of these subjects have never been presented to kidney patients before like renal acid load. It’s time for us to have an up to date, well researched diet and plan for slowing or maybe even stopping our disease. We need to treat every factor we can possibly treat, not just three.

I am trying to keep this book cheap and affordable so I will not be reprinting chapters from Stopping Kidney Disease. The number of color pages increases the printing prices dramatically, so short and sweet will be the theme here.

Your education will determine your outcome and odds.

If you learn one thing from this book or other books in this series, it should be:

Educated patients live longer and better lives. Education on your disease and treatment options will likely be the greatest factor in your success or failure in dealing with this disease.

I have tried it all: drugs, diets, the best hospitals in the US, and even traveled overseas for help. I am here to tell you as a fellow patient that it is very likely that everything you know about kidney diets is wrong, or if it’s right, it is 50 years behind the times. As I said, most of our current guidelines can be traced back to the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

An analogy of our current dietary situation might help:

Assume you are in an accident and break ten bones, but the doctors decided 50 years ago that the maximum they can treat is three broken bones. Seven bones go untreated because that’s the way they did it 50 years ago.

Traditional and other current kidney diets focus on treating just three conditions as we all know: sodium, phosphorus, and potassium. However, most of us have many more comorbid conditions made worse by traditional kidney diets. We need to try and treat, cure or manage as many conditions as possible, not just three. You would never know you need treat other conditions or have other dietary options unless you get educated.

Patient-to-Patient, the fastest and best hope for us

The reasons why I am so focused on educating patients and caregivers is time, location, apathy, and improving your odds regardless of where you live.

Change is painfully slow in all areas, but medical related changes takes decades. Nutrition research seem to be especially dominated by marketing and trendy foods, not facts for kidney patients.

It took 40 years and over 7,000 studies before smoking was declared bad for us.

It takes 12 to 20 years for a drug to make it to the marketplace.

According to the Institute of Medicine in their Yearbook of Medical Informatics, it takes 17 years for a new medical practice to be adopted.

No matter what data you review, change takes decades. The well-meaning and nice people who are advising us are woefully behind the times. It’s not their fault; it’s the system that we have and we have to deal with it.

I believe patient-to-patient help and education is the answer. The reason is, we will all die waiting for our caregivers to catch up with current information. I didn’t have 15 or 20 years to wait for a cure or a way to slow my disease.

This is even more of a factor as most kidney patients are over 60 years of age. Waiting 20 years is not an option for us.

We are motivated to find a solution, to find something that works, and to find a way to live longer and better. We have our entire skin in the game. We are all in whether we like it or not. Those helping us don’t have this kind of pressure and motivation. Our caregivers are also constrained by rules and regulations, but we patients are not. We are free to search and try alternatives our caregivers will not hear about until decades later.

Patient-to-patient education allows you to get educated today, not 20 years from now. Education needed for lots of reasons and apathy is one of them.

Apathy

If you want proof, listen to my experience in the past 45 days:

After publishing Stopping Kidney Disease, I was surprised by the number of emails and calls I got about caregivers (doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, even dialysis clinics) telling patients things like