Renal Diet: What can you really eat?!

Renal Diet

Being a Kidney Patient is difficult. It is not just the health challenges it poses on a day-to-day basis. It is also the “restrictions” that are suddenly “imposed” on us even with something as basic as “what we EAT”! Admittedly, the Renal Diet appears all the more challenging when it is a festive season!

But, focusing on what we CAN eat with kidney disease in tow, instead of what we CANNOT opens a whole new horizon of food options & possible food combinations which may go unnoticed otherwise.

 

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Phosphorus & the CKD Diet

If you are/have been a member of Club CKD or a caregiver of one, just like us at Team ATK, you probably know a thing or two about how the Renal Diet is an essential part of the treatment approach towards Chronic Kidney Disease, whatever be the cause. Among tweaking other nutrients, adjusting Phosphorus intake is an integral part of this CKD Diet.

 

WHAT IS PHOSPHORUS & WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

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Potassium & your CKD Diet

If you are a member of Club CKD or a caregiver of one, just like all of us here at Team ATK, you probably know a thing or two about how the Renal Diet is an essential part of the treatment approach towards Chronic Kidney Disease, whatever be the cause. Among tweaking other nutrients, lowering the intake of Potassium is an integral part of this CKD Diet.

 

WHAT IS POTASSIUM AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
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