December 21, 2007

Holiday Survival

By Sara posted in Kidney Diet with No Comments

Do you have a plan for surviving the holidays without blowing your kidney diet? With all the social events, eating temptations and extra goodies this time of year, a person could easily consume extra sodium, potassium, phosphorus and fluid. Check out the attached handout for some great suggestions from the DaVita Dietitian team on things you can do to keep the holidays happy.

final-holiday-survival-tips1.pdf

December 11, 2007

Happy Holiday Eating

By Sara posted in Kidney Diet, What to eat with No Comments

Happy Holiday Eating!
Part of enjoying the holidays is staying healthy. For kidney patients this is a challenge since holidays are centered on food and drinks. How you approach this challenge can make all the difference!

Instead of focusing on what you can’t have, take a different spin and focus on the positive things you have in your life—like family, friends and little things that you enjoy. Focus on diet as a tool to help keep you from being fluid overloaded, itchy from phosphorus or weak from potassium imbalance. Even though it’s a pain, following your diet can mean feeling good during and after social gatherings and special holiday events!

Here are some links to great holiday guidelines for people with kidney disease on a renal diet:
http://www.davita.com/diet-and-nutrition/c/special-occasions
http://www.kidneytimes.com/article_search_view.php?articlefilename=2007_02_22_1541.html
http://www.aakp.org/aakp-library/renal-smart-food-choices/

December 11, 2007

Finally back!

By Sara posted in Kidney Diet, What to eat with No Comments

Finally back! I took a blog leave to work on DaVita Diet Helper which has now launched and is available for anyone to use. DaVita Diet Helper is the newest tool available to help kidney patients plan their diets. You simply register then enter your diet prescription (you need to know your protein and potassium levels—all the meals are low sodium and low phosphorus). Once you are into the program you can choose from two weeks worth or meals and snacks to create your diet plan. All the meals have been calculated, so you don’t have to worry about meeting your numbers! Simply print out the meals with recipes and shopping list. You can also enter foods you eat that aren’t in the plan to keep track of your intake. Try it out!http://www.davita.com/diethelper/