Emergency Dialysis Diet: 4 Most Important Aspects

Are you aware of the need for an emergency dialysis diet? No matter where you live, natural disasters are bound to happen. It is scary…

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Spice Up Your Life Without Salt Part II

You may be curious about the difference between herbs and spices. Herbs are aromatic plants. The leaves, stems or flowers may be used as a…

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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…

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Please Pass Over the Salt

Following a low-sodium diet would be easier to monitor if you bought only fresh, whole foods and prepared them at home. In current times, that just doesn’t…

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Kidney Diet Tip: Please Pass Over the Salt

 The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend all people reduce sodium to 2,300 mg or less. For African Americans of any age, people who are 51 and older, or those…

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Meeting lower sodium guidelines on a kidney-friendly diet: breads and cereals

The new sodium guidelines in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans are out so now the quest has begun for lower sodium kidney-friendly recipes and foods…

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Holiday eating on a low sodium diet for kidney patients

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…but be sure the snow-white seasoning called salt isn’t falling on your plate this holiday season. Much…

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