Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 052 – 4 Things For People Who Are New To Kidney Disease

4 Things For People Who Are New To Kidney Disease Podcast #52 Released on August 1, 2017   Welcome to the Renal Diet Headquarters podcast with your host, Mathea Ford, CEO of Renal Diet Headquarters. This is our weekly talk about how you can succeed with the kidney diet brought to you by renaldiethq.com, a website whose mission is to be the most valued resource on kidney disease that people can use to improve their health. Hey guys, this is Mathea Ford with Renal Diet HQ, and I'm doing a challenge this month. It's to go live every day in August, so you should expect to see 30 or 31 new videos in the group in the page in the month of August. And today I wanted to take just a quick minute. I get a lot of questions from people who are brand new with kidney disease or people whose family members just found out that they have kidney disease and they want to help. And so I have some quick tips that are both related to diet and related to other stuff. So, I want to go over those with you today quick and just make this a short live and comment below, add any questions that you have and I'll come back and answer those questions for you, whatever you have and maybe do another live about that topic if you let me know what you'd like to hear more about. I have some topics already chosen, but I love suggestions because I always want to tell you about things that you're interested in. My four tips for people who are new to kidney disease, who just got it or just found out or just deciding to do something about it. Number one, first tip is regarding the diet. Cut your meat portion in half, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, whatever it is the amount that you normally eat, cut that in half. Now you may be thinking, well, i'll be hungry. I won't have enough to eat, that's not enough protein. Part of kidney disease is lowering your protein intake because protein creates a lot of waste in your body that your kidneys have to deal with. So, we actually only need about half the protein that we eat a day, so cutting it in half isn't going to hurt you. And second of all, it also reduces those other things, like the amount of salt that you eat, the amount of potassium and phosphorous that you eat. So, the simple act of cutting the amount of meat you have that you normally eat in half can make a huge difference in your diet. So, I would just say, start with that. Don't worry about making special changes. If you're stage three kidney disease, this will help you and the other thing you do kind of with that because like you said, you may be hungry is add more vegetables. Vegetables are a low cal way to add more volume to your diet and more nutrition without adding a lot of more calories. So, I would recommend you double the amount of vegetables that you eat whether it's just adding a salad, adding more carrots, cauliflower, peppers, whatever. So, next you're going to say to me, which I'll talk about in another video. I can't have tomatoes. I can't have this. I can't have potatoes. All of that is related to your personal labs. But the fact that you cut your protein in half, your protein serving in half is going to make a huge difference in your lab. So you may not even need to be so worried about restrictive, but if you're worried about it, don't eat those vegetables. But there's plenty of vegetables that you can eat. And if you go to my website, renaldiethq.com, you can sign up and get seven free dinner meals, and you will look at the portions on those and realize that the portions are about half on the protein items. So, that's my number one tip is to reduce the amount of protein that you're eating by cutting your meat in half. So, if you normally eat cheese kind of as your protein, cut the amount of cheese that you eat in half, and that will make a huge difference. So my second tip,