Renal Diet Headquarters Podcast 054 – Managing Kidney Disease And Diabetes

Managing Kidney Disease And Diabetes Podcast #54 Released on August 3, 201 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 a 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, this is Mathea Ford with renaldiethq.com. And today I want to start off with a request. So, if you're watching this on the replay, you're probably most likely to see this. But I want to request I'm working on a program called Zestify Your Diet. So, starting in September, you'll see some YouTube videos with recipes for people with kidney disease that I've basically taken the original recipe and I've adjusted it to work for kidney disease. And my request is this, I don't have a lot of dessert      recipes. So, if you're watching this and you have kidney disease or you have somebody that you're caring for with kidney disease, and I'd ask you if you could send me what is your favorite dessert or what is their favorite dessert. Doesn't have to be kidney friendly, doesn't have to be already adjusted. I am just looking for recipes that I can then take and fix for myself, not for myself, but for the web series Zestify Your Diet. So, if you will email me or even just leave a link below, just put a note below in the comments and just tell me the name of the recipe. And if you have, you know, specific thing like strawberry shortcake or angel food cake or, you know, baked alaska. I don't know. But whatever you like, just put it below the video. That would be best for me. And then I can just go back and I could start using those. And I'm going to publish those every week, and it's not going to be desserts. It's going to be side dishes, entrees all different kinds of things. That's my request for those of you who are watching the video, if you can do that. And then today I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about kidney disease and diabetes. So let's see swipe left. Okay, I want to talk about diabetes and kidney disease because a good majority of people who have kidney disease started out with diabetes and the diabetes damaged their kidneys. So now they have the double whammy of having to deal with the diabetes that may be more difficult to control now. And kidney disease. So, that's one of the most popular meal plans that I have. And if you'd like a free sample of a meal plan for people with kidney disease and diabetes, if you go to renaldiethq.com at that page, there's a link you can click on that says I have kidney disease and diabetes, and you will be able to get a free seven day dinner meal plan, which is basically seven different dinner recipes. Dessert so dessert, side dishes, and you'll be able to try it out for a little bit. Okay. I wanted to talk to you about renal and diabetes because I wanted to kind of give you an idea of why kidney disease and diabetes goes together so well in a bad way, I guess you have very small capillaries in your kidneys that actually filter your blood. So even though your kidneys are a large organ, your blood goes into those kidneys and it gets smaller and smaller and smaller filters. I mean blood vessels. And then it eventually gets to the point where it's just a very thin layer between your blood and the area of the kidneys that actually filters. And that's where the that's where the waste come across.