Supermarket Shopping Tips for Those with Kidney Disease

2015-11-01 06:32

It is very common for us to go to supermarket shopping to buy foods, and people with kidney disease need to know what foods are recommended and those should be avoided. Thus, this time we mostly introduce supermarket shopping tips for those with kidney disease.

In the first place, you should make the below preparations before go shopping:

1. you need to know your planned diet which is set up by doctors and dietitians in detail clearly.

2. get a list of foods you are going to buy.

3. you had better eat some food before going shopping, in case that you are hungry, then you see some delicious food which may be harmful for you and you will eat it

4. you should buy fresh ones and avoid packaged, processed ones which is very likely to have high sodium.

5. see labels in detail

for phosphorus, potassium, protein, sodium, fat and cholesterol, these need to be low in labels. And it is suggested to refer to your diet plan. If labels are not clear about elements in food, you should ask salesman or leave it.

In a word, it is highly suggested to buy materials of foods, and you can do some cooking by yourself, in this way, the risk of harmful elements for kidney disease patients can be prevented well. The principle of kidney disease diet: low salt, low phosphorus, low potassium, low protein, more high quality protein, low fat and cholesterol, enough calcium.

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