Renal Diabetic Meal Planning

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Diabetes and renal disease are challenging. But when you have to plan your meals for them together, it may be more stressful and even overwhelming. Patients suffering from diabetes have to plan meal by counting saturated fat and carbohydrates, but for kidney disease they need to add more to the list of foods to monitor.

Kidneys work hard in order to get rid of waste products while keeping vital nutrients in your body. Every day, your kidneys filter around 50 gallons of blood and expel toxins via urine. They help keeping in perfect balance nutrients such as potassium and salt. In case of patients suffering from diabetes renal disease can be a potential long term complication. If the kidneys are damaged they may lose their ability to properly filter the blood and eliminate toxins. In case that excess fluid and waste cannot escape your body that may become dangerous for your health. For this reason it is important to create a meal plan that takes into consideration the decreased kidney function in diabetes patients.

Renal diabetic meal planning should reduce the protein amount in your daily diet and stick only with high quality protein found in fish, eggs, lean meats, tofu, soy milk and soy nuts. Beans, cheese and tree nuts should be avoided by those who suffer from a kidney disease because they are high in phosphorus, which should be limited in intake. In case that dialysis becomes necessary the protein needs may change. Protein is lost during dialysis and for this reason those patients with kidney failure need to increase their protein intake.

Because sodium can increase the risk for heart disease and raise blood pressure, patients suffering from diabetes are recommended to reduce their sodium intake. In renal disease it becomes even more important to minimize sodium intake, which can cause fluid retention, swelling, and blood pressure. It is advised to eat less than 1,500 mg sodium daily, depending on the level of your kidney function. In order to boost the flavor of foods you may ad spices and herbs to your meals instead of salt.

Because it can help reduce blood pressure, potassium is considered as a counterbalance to salt. However, if the kidney don’t work well, too much potassium can be dangerous for the heart because it may build up in the blood. Therefore, renal diabetic meal planning should also limit the potassium intake.

Your meal plan should avoid buttermilk, chocolate milk, sweetened yogurt, sugar sweetened ice cream, sugar sweetened pudding, frozen desserts, and replace them with skim or fat free milk, plain yogurt, non-diary creamer, sugar free pudding and ice cream. You also need to avoid frosted or sugar coated cereals, bran bread, granola, instant cereals, biscuits, pancake mix, gingerbread, cornbread mix, corn chips, potato chips, whole grain cereals and replace them with white bread, rye, wheat, sourdough, unsweetened refined dry cereals, bagel, and flour tortilla.

Avoid bananas, avocados, dried fruits, cantaloupe, and consume more apples, apricot, grapes, grapefruit and berries. Do not consume sweet potatoes, baked potatoes, yams, baked or dried beans, artichoke, beet greens, cooked spinach, tomato juice or vegetable juice, winter squash and pumpkin. Recommended veggies in a renal diabetic meal planning are peas, corn, beets, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, Brussels sprouts, green beans, celery, cauliflower, cabbage, cucumber, kale, lettuce, turnips, and summer squash.

Do not consume bacon, cheeses, cann4d and luncheon meats, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, sausage, and organ meats. Recommended sources of proteins are poultry, lean meat, seafood and fish, eggs, and cottage cheese.

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