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Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Protein
How Much Protein Do You Need? Recommendations for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Protein is an important nutrient and has many roles in the body….
Continue Reading »Flavor Fatigue Setting In? Sauce it Up
Chicken again? Has your initial determination to make dietary changes started to falter? Perhaps your once “go-to” meals have gradually become flat and boring. Flavor fatigue is…
Continue Reading »Staying on a Budget With Canned Foods
Canned foods are one of the best ways to purchase food items for your home: they are inexpensive, convenient and easy to store. Read on…
Continue Reading »Making Your Favorite Latin Lenten Foods Kidney-Friendly
Blog post contributed by Sara Young, Student Intern Lent, or Cuaresma in Spanish, is a Christian observance and forty-day period leading up to Easter marked…
Continue Reading »Treating Constipation with Peritoneal Dialysis
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is another way to help clean the toxins in your blood when your kidneys no longer work. The peritoneum cavity is the…
Continue Reading »Fatty Liver and Kidney Disease Primer
What is Fatty Liver? While you may have heard that too much alcohol can lead to liver problems, you might be less familiar with another…
Continue Reading »Flavor Fatigue Setting In? Sauce It Up!
Chicken again? Has your initial determination to make dietary changes started to falter? Perhaps your once “go-to” meals have gradually become flat and boring. Flavor fatigue is…
Continue Reading »Ring in the New Year with Good Luck Foods
Many people see the new year as a time for renewal and a chance to reach new goals. For centuries, certain foods have been celebrated…
Continue Reading »Kidney-Friendly Foods from the Puerto Rican Culture
Puerto Rico, “The Island of Enchantment” as it is often called, is a United States territory located in the Caribbean Sea. The island has beautiful…
Continue Reading »5 Reasons to Monitor Blood Glucose During the Holidays
Monitoring blood glucose levels is important for people with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes to help control blood sugar (1). Monitoring helps prevent…
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