A healthy and balanced diet is especially important for patients with kidney disease.

Click here to visit the Kidney Center's kidney disease diet pages, which offer patients some suggestions for Low Sodium, Low Potassium, and Low Phosphorus/Low Potassium Diets.

The pages will help show patients who need to follow a specific diet, the foods they should try to avoid. The pages also show some safer alternatives to those foods.

 

Please check out the following links from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) for more information on how nutrition plays a role in the health of your kidneys. (Note: before you make any dietary changes, please consult with your nurse, doctor, or dietician).

 

General Information

AAKP Nutrition Counter Davita Diet Helpter (menu planning and recipes for dialysis patients) Nutrition and Chronic Kidney Disease (for kidney patients who are not on dialysis and have not received a transplant) Nutrition in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease Nutrition for Hemodialysis Patients Nutrition for Peritoneal Dialysis Patients (home dialysis) "Dining Out With Confidence" (tips for eating out with a special diet) Foods to avoid if you're on a low-potassium diet

 

 

Cookbooks

• Living Well on Dialysis Cookbook (NKF/Council on Renal Nutrition)
• Southwest Cookbook for People on Dialysis - English and Spanish           (NKF of Texas/El Paso Chapter on Renal Nutrition)
  • View and print by Recipe
• Culinary Kidney Cooks
• List of Cookbooks for Kidney Patients from the NKF's Council on Renal Nutrition
• Click here to order a free copy of the "Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods" Cookbook