Kidney Diet - Are They Really Effective?
Kidney diet has become so popular nowadays. This is primarily because kidney diseases have
exploded in the last few years to a certain point that people don’t even realize what’s coming.
It is more prevalent in people nearing age 60 at about 40%, but kidney failure can show itself to people as young
as 20.
The prevalence of chronic kidney disease has increased by up to 25% from the previous decade. The increasing
incidence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension high blood pressure, obesity, and an aging population have led to this
increase in kidney disease.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) determined that almost 20 percent of all adults above the age of 20 years old
have chronic kidney disease. To put it into a harsher term, if you are in a bus with 9 other people, there is
almost 1 of 5 chances that you have signs of having kidney disease. Now this is one of those rare times when
playing Russian roulette would seem to be a better alternative. Scary isn’t it?
CDC further indicates that over 400,000 patients are on dialysis or have received kidney transplants. This is a
number that is expected to rise in the next decade as lifestyle and diet of today’s John Doe is too much of what
the body can effectively handle.
To top it all off, about 67,000 people die each year because of kidney failure.
The kidney diet is usually done best in kidney disease patients who want to stop the disease progression. It acts
as a prophylactic measure in caring for your kidneys thereby making it healthy. However, like most people, we only
come to realize the wrongness of our actions after we have experienced the consequences.
As a nurse, I have been with many patients who later come to regret the abuse that they have done with their
kidneys. They now experience chronic renal disease and must under go weekly dialysis and await kidney
transplantation.
All is not too late though. The good news is that the kidney diet can be used as an adjunct to pre-dialysis and
pre-transplantation treatment which is through adequately-low protein diet, Hypertension, Anemia and Diabetes
“H.A.D.” treatment, and vitamin supplementation.
Its effectiveness has been supported by a lot of research studies both in the United States and the UK and has been
proven to delay progression of kidney diseases by hundreds of patients who have used this method before you.
I just can’t emphasize enough how important kidney diet really is to all kidney patients. It is important to be
started as immediately as possible to stop the kidneys from dying as time pass by.
More resources:
Kidney Disease Diet
Kidney Diet
Renal Diet
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