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Kidney Health 101: What is Diabetic Kidney Disease?
You may know diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease. In fact, one in three adults with diabetes has kidney disease. Kidney disease caused…
Continue Reading »Kidney Health 101: What are Stage 1 and 2 Kidney Disease?
Did you know that chronic kidney disease (CKD) comes in stages? There are five stages of CKD and you may have heard from your doctor…
Continue Reading »5 Tips to Lowering your Salt Intake
by guest blogger DaVita dietitian Susan Zogheib, MHS, RD, LDN Salt is made up of 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride and is very…
Continue Reading »Diabetes and Dietary Patterns
November is American Diabetes Month in recognition of almost 30 million Americans with diabetes and 86 million with prediabetes. Over the years many diet combinations…
Continue Reading »World Kidney Day is March 14
World Kidney Day is a time to recognize the extent of kidney disease throughout the world, learn about risk factors and screening for kidney disease…
Continue Reading »Vegetarian Diets for Chronic Kidney Disease
World Vegetarian Day (Oct 1), Vegetarian Awareness Month throughout October, and Meatless Mondays are among some of the activities drawing more attention to vegetarian eating. What used…
Continue Reading »Preventing diabetes and kidney disease: Link to canned meat
Canned meats always show up on the list of high sodium foods. Products such as Spam®, Treat®, Vienna Sausage® and Potted Meat® are processed canned…
Continue Reading »Inflammation and Chronic Kidney Disease: The Dietary Fiber Connection
Recently I read an article on inflammation and fiber from Renal and Urology News that has a connection to the kidney diet and chronic kidney…
Continue Reading »DaVita Kidney Rock 5K Run/Walk: Join the FUN!
If you are on a kidney diet, you already know about kidney disease. What about your family and friends? Screening and early detection of kidney…
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