Healthy eating for kidney patients

　　Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital
　　Healthy eating for kidney patients
　　This information will help you to understand more about the foods you need to eat and avoid as a kidney patient. Healthy eating should be important in everyone’s life, but sadly not everyone thinks this is so.
　　It is never too late for anyone to make positive changes that benefit health and well being. The sooner this happens, the stronger the long term benefits will be. At a GP surgery, as well as measuring height and weight, the body mass index (BMI) can be calculated. This gives an indication of whether weight needs to be lost. Follow the link to try your own calculation. BMI is not so helpful for those of muscular build.
　　Where you carry your fat is also important as those with a waist measuring more than 102cm in men and 88cm in women are at greater risk of becoming ill and having a shorter life. It is better to be a ‘pear’, having a narrower waist and larger hips than be an ‘apple’ where the waist is large and the hips narrower.
　　This is certainly true for those with renal disease. Changes to diet in response to advice from medical professionals can make a difference to the progression of disease as well as helping to prevent complications.
　　Those not approaching end stage renal failure (ESRF) should follow the nationally recommended guidelines on healthy eating. Currently there are two systems to help us get the most information from food labelling:
　　See The eat well plate from the Food Standards Agency.
　　For those with stages three, four and five of chronic kidney disease (renal failure), professional guidance is needed for the renal specific changes needed to diet.
　　The dietary guidance and treatment changes as renal impairment progresses, or if the form of dialysis changes and also following transplantation.
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