Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?
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The Acid Test for End Stage Kidney Disease
If your kidney disease is really advanced, what they call end stage kidney disease, your diet is really constrained. You can have apples but not apricots and carrots but not pumpkin. That's because of the specific nutrients in those foods. The patient's kidneys can no longer handle levels of calcium, potassium, and phosphorus that people without kidney disease have no problem with. Some things are more straightforward and you don't need to understand the precise minerals in particular foods but it's still hard to do.
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