DaVita Inc., has launched DaVita Diet Helper to make kidney-friendly meals easy to plan, prepare, and track. This all-purpose online meal planning tool helps dialysis patients, their caregivers, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Developed by medical students, the Dialysis Pocket Assistant (DiPA) is a database of products and recipes ...

Discover which foods work best in a diabetic kidney–disease diet, and see a grocery list and sample menu to help you get started.

The kidneys play a pivotal role in maintaining our overall health by filtering waste products, excess water, and other impurities from our blood. These substances are stored in the bladder and later ...

When Brittany Sparks, RDN, CSR, CDN, a private practice dietitian in Denver, Colorado, first started working in a hospital nutrition department over 15 years ago, a patient on dialysis who was ...

Pasta without sauce. Unsalted crackers. Plain white rice. What is traditionally known to be the renal diet — a complicated diet with a wide range of restrictions, including limited protein, potassium, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients on maintenance hemodialysis who engaged in occasional or frequent physical activity were less likely to ...

If your doctor advised you to lower your potassium intake, you may wonder if a diet that you’ve already heard of can help. Plenty of different eating plans exist, and many have at least some proven ...

A new study has shown that eating more fruits and vegetables can help lower blood pressure and improve both heart and kidney ...