Healthy Eating for Kidney Disease

2016-01-07 07:43

Healthy eating is helpful for controlling kidney disease. A good weight is healthy for patients with kidney disease. The below should be managed well in meals:

Calories

How much calories you should take depends on your detailed physical and disease condition, and enough calories for body is necessary, but excessive will cause overweight and obesity, which can increase the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and cardiovascular problems. Controlling calories is vital for kidney disease people.

Protein

Patients with kidney disease should have a low protein diet because wastes can be produced when protein is decomposed in body, putting more pressure on kidney, and proteinuria is also a common symptom, so much protein can aggravate this. Vegetables and fruits are beneficial for kidney disease, which contain low protein mostly.

Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are divided into good ones and bad ones. Carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables are beneficial for patients with kidney disease. Soft drinks and sugar have the bad one.

In addition, those high in potassium and phosphorus should be avoided in meals.

Fat

Much fat or cholesterol can do harm to our health by causing high blood pressure, heart disease. Olive oil, vegetables oil can be good fat, but butter and meat is saturated fat, which should be limited.

Sodium

Low sodium is necessary for both kidney disease patients and healthy people. Much sodium will increase blood pressure, contributing to high blood pressure.

Phosphorus and potassium

These should be removed from body through urine. For kidney disease, kidney may have a hard time removing much from body, leading to high levels. Thus, low potassium and phosphorus can be necessary in diet.

Healthy eating is very good for controlling kidney disease. Thus, patients should have a diet plan in life, and if you have any question or need any help, you can leave a message or contact our online doctor anytime. Reply will be given very soon for you in detail.

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