The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook (eBook)

Over 150 Delicious Kidney-Friendly Meals to Ensure You Manage Your Kidney Disease

Michele Ferris (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 1. Auflage
338 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-013143-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book Michele Ferris has done an excellent job in educating patients about their disease, showing why watching your diet is essential and offering mouth-watering recipes that encourage compliance and fun!

There is no doubt that a kidney disease diagnosis can be overwhelming, but you are not alone. Almost 26 million adults are affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), but there is hope for you: your diet! In The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook renal dietitian, Michele Ferris provides you dietary plans to establish long-term dietary changes to slow the progression of the kidney disease.  She knows that it can be so frustrating and confusing to figure out which foods to eat and which to stay away from. In her comprehensive renal diet, she details recipes that keep your potassium, sodium, and phosphorus levels under control.

The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook eliminates the vagueness and constant worry of figuring out what foods to eat, with:

-Kidney-friendly recipes that are delicious and nutritious. You choose what you like from her weekly changing menus. You can cook great meals in 30 minutes or less!

-Recipe modifications for dialysis patients

-Helpful Frequently Asked Questions about managing chronic kidney disease

The delicious recipes in The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook includes: Spring Green Omelet, Delicious French Toast, Chinese Chicken, Turkey and Couscous Stuffed Bell Peppers, Peppered Creamy Beer and Rice, Mustard & Leek Pork Tenderloin, Filipino Style Shrimp Noodles, Sweet Chicken Stir-Fry, Spiced Apple Cake, Spanish Crunchy Tofu Stir-Fry, Turnip and Rutabaga Mash, Fish Tacos with Vegetable Stew, Shrimp and Greens and Garden Crustless Quiche and much more!

More than a recipe book, The Essential Kidney Disease Cookbook is your action plan to kick-start a kidney-healthy diet.

This book contains over 150 Delicious Kidney-Friendly Meals to Ensure You Manage Your Kidney Disease.

In this book, you will discover how to drastically improve your kidney function in less than 14 days just making a few changes to your diet!

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You might be wondering what actually constitutes dietary choices for a healthier lifestyle. Individuals suffering from kidney disease are so much worried about they can eat that what cannot consume.

Generally, a diet can be healthy and effective for a particular individual, while it may not be that effective for another individual. It is a fact that certain foods have negative impacts on renal health. Therefore, the aims of this chapter are to offer dependable renal diet information based on nutritional knowledge in order that you become informed and enlighten about your diet choices.

The following renal diet tips you should pay attention to:

- Know what you should only eat: The following category of foods is healthy for your kidneys:

a. Fruits: such as watermelon, raspberries, pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, apricot, grapes, peach, and apples.

b. vegetables such as asparagus, mung beans, cabbage, onion, cauliflower, and garlic.

C. Protein such as fish, chicken, and tofu.

d. herbs and spices like paprika, olive oil, sesame seeds, oregano, and curry powder.

Stay away from foods that harmful to your kidneys. These include:

a. Alcohol: The first rule is to avoid it completely but if not possible be moderate in your approach to alcohol and seek medical advice from your physician. For men, 2 drinks in a day are permitted. Women, it is 1 drink per day, that being the safe level of drinking.

b. Sugar

C. Processed food

d. Red meat.

e. Foods that contain gluten: such as Kamut, spelt, and rye. The safest grain alternatives are teff, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, millet, and rice.

F. Individuals with kidney disease should shun foods that high in phosphorus and sodium.

3. Guard your consumption of phosphorus, protein, potassium, and sodium. Ensure that they are within the permissible limits. Regrettably, healthy limits depend on the level or stage of severity of the kidney disease. This is the reason it is essential that you consult a physician nutritionist so that an appropriate renal diet can be designed for you in line with the state of your kidney health. Also, make sure that you test your blood to determine the proportion of nutrients that are high or low as the case may be, as this will enable your dietitian to adjust your diet.

4. Consume the right fluids to keep your body hydrated. In other words, you are to do away with alcohol, coffee, caffeinated drinks, soda pop, tea, carbonated beverages, and those labeled "sugar-free" drinks. It is more beneficial to take herbal teas such as berries, green tea, lemon, fresh fruits, and vegetable juices and more water.

5. A strong Commitment: If you actually want to reverse your disease and improve your kidney performance, you must adopt the renal diet wholeheartedly. As it has been reported by the scientific studies, a mere single slip can disrupt all your previous efforts. Therefore, you should stick to the renal diet completely. However, with sincere dedication, your efforts to reverse your condition would soon pay off, particularly when your levels of creatinine drop.

6. Following a whole, unprocessed, renal diet can become burdensome at times when preparing your meals. I want to assure you that if you follow the information and kidney-friendly recipes in the book you will, without doubt, reap bountifully the benefits of healthier kidneys

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE RENAL DIET

Individuals who suffer from kidney disease basically require paying special attention to phosphorus, sodium and potassium intakes. These classes of nutrients need to be controlled.

SODIUM

This is generally present in salt and is mainly used for seasoning foods. Nevertheless, if you are on a renal diet, it is compulsory that you reduced your sodium intakes by observing these guidelines:

- Stop using salt to season food instead try cooking with fresh herbs, lemon juice or other salt-free spices.

-Do not put salt directly to your meal.

- Avoid processed foods in all ramifications because they contain an excessive quantity of sodium like hot dogs, nuggets, ham, canned soup etc.

- Make sure you read the labels. If you will be purchasing canned vegetables, ensure that you buy only those with "no salt added".

-Select fresh or frozen vegetables instead of canned vegetables. If you do use canned vegetables, drain and rinse them to get rid of extra salt before cooking or eating them.

- Avoid processed meats such as ham, bacon, sausage and lunch meats.

- Eat on fresh fruits and vegetables rather than crackers or other salty snacks.

-Steer clear of canned soups and frozen dinners that are high in sodium.

-Stay away from pickled foods, such as olives and pickles.

- Limit high-sodium condiments such as soy sauce, BBQ sauce, and ketchup.

However, if you must use salt in your cooking let it be sparingly used.

This is important, be careful with salt substitutes and “reduced sodium” foods as several substitutes are high in potassium. Excess potassium is harmful if you have kidney disease. Consult your dietitian to help find foods that are low in sodium and potassium.

Studies have recommended that adult and children should consume 2,300mg of sodium per day. But if you have kidney disease, no matter the stage you are, it is suggested that you decrease it to 1,500mg or lower in a day.

POTASSIUM

Potassium is another vital nutrient but it should be reduced greatly or abandoned altogether when you are managing kidney disease. This is because potassium could accumulate in the blood and lead to an irregular heartbeat or worse heart attack. Potassium is mostly found in kale, melons, oranges, bananas, prunes, pumpkin, Swiss chard, and squash.

The recommended quantity of potassium for individuals experiencing kidney disease is below 2,000mg per day.

PHOSPHORUS

This is another substance that builds up in the blood most especially when kidneys are not functioning properly. When this occurs, the bone disease can become a disastrous issue.

Depending on your stage of kidney disease, your physician may also recommend a medicine known as a phosphate binder. This helps to keep phosphorus from accumulating in your blood. A phosphate binder can be helpful, but you will still need to watch how much phosphorus you eat. Ask your physician if a phosphate binder is right for you.

Lower-Phosphorous Foods

Italian, French or sourdough bread

Corn or rice cereals and cream of wheat

Unsalted popcorn

Some light-colored sodas and lemonade

Higher-Phosphorous Foods

Whole-grain bread

Bran cereals and oatmeal

Nuts and sunflower seeds

Dark-colored colas

Key Steps to Limit Phosphorus in Your Body:

- Reduce milk consumption to 1 cup per day

- Limit intake of veggie high in phosphorus to 1 cup per week. They include mushrooms, broccoli, dried beans, and Brussels sprouts.

- Cereals should be reduced to a single serving in a week like wheat cereals, bran, granola, and oatmeal.

The recommended phosphorus intake per for people with kidney disease is 800 to 1,000mg in a day.

PROTEIN

One of the building blocks of your body is protein. Your body immensely requires to grow, heal and remain healthy. Deficiency of protein in your body can make to skin, nails, and hair to be weak but the presence of excess protein in your body can also be a problem, and therefore to stay healthy and help you feel your best, you may need to fine-tune your protein needs.

Basically, the amount of protein you need depends solely on your body size, activity level, and health concerns. It is in line with this principle, the physicians recommend that individuals with kidney disease reduce protein or alter their protein sources. This becomes necessary as a diet high in protein can subject the kidneys to severe strain and may cause more harm. Consult your physician and dietitian on the amount of protein you should have.

Note that just because a particular food is low in protein, it is still unhealthy to eat without limits.

Lower-protein foods:

Bread

Pasta

Fruits

Vegetables

Rice

Higher-protein foods:

Red meat

Poultry

Fish

Eggs

The recommended protein intake for pre-dialysis individuals is 37 to 41g per day.

CARBOHYDRATES

Carbs are the simplest type of energy for your body requirement.  Sources of healthy carbohydrates include vegetables and fruits. Unhealthy sources of carbohydrates include sugar, hard candies, honey, and sugary drinks.

Certain carbs are high in phosphorus and potassium as such you need to be careful with the types of carbs you load into your system. Talk to your dietitian to help learn more about the carbohydrates in your meal plan and they influence your blood sugar.

FAT

We all need some amount of fat in our meal plan to stay healthy. Fat supplies your energy and helps you utilize some of the vitamins in your food. However, too much fat can cause weight gain and heart disease.

Healthier fat or “good” fat is also known as unsaturated fat.

Examples of unsaturated fat include:

Olive oil

Peanut oil

Corn oil

Healthy fat can help reduce cholesterol in your body. Nature is full of surprises!

For instance, if you want to gain weight just increase your consumption of unsaturated fat and also if you equally want to lose weight, limit the amount of unsaturated fat in your meal plan. The key as always is moderation.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• ISBN-10: 0-00-013143-1 / 0000131431
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-013143-0 / 9780000131430