Diet

• American Diabetes Association - nutrition tips for people with diabetes (ask your renal dietitian how to make your diabetes diet fit with the renal diet)
• American Dietetic Association - provides healthy lifestyles information, consumer information (under Knowledge Center), and how to locate a dietitian; nephrologists can refer patients to dietitians that specialize in the kidney diet
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation Renal Diet Cookbooks - information on nutrition and kidney disease, a glossary, and cookbooks you can order
• Culinary Kidney Cooks - recipes and tips posted each week plus the table of contents and ordering information for a cookbook for dialysis patients called Cooking for David
• DaVita: Diet & Nutrition - diets for CKD and dialysis patients
• Eat Right to Feel Right on Hemodialysis - federal government brochure on the renal diet
• Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods: A Collection of Recipes for Eating Well with Chronic Kidney Disease - free cookbook with 21 low-phosphorus recipes developed by a certified chef de cuisine who is also a nutritionist, and reviewed by a renal dietitian; cookbook is on the website for Fosrenol, a phosphate binder used by people with kidney disease and kidney failure
• Kidney Helpers - information including how to order charts on potassium and phosphorus foods plus links to information about how to obtain the Kidney Helper cookbook
• Kidney School™ - nutrition module has information for people on hemodialysis with and without diabetes and for people on peritoneal dialysis with and without diabetes
• Living Well on Dialysis: A Cookbook for Patients and Their Families - publication by the National Kidney Foundation Council on Renal Nutrition that is also available in PDF and includes sample menus and chapters on different types of foods
• MEDLINEplus - Diet and Chronic Kidney Disease - information on the renal diet
• Creating a Healthy Menu - a free downloadable program that helps you plan menus and stay within what you're allowed on the renal diet by telling you what's in a list of 700 foods
• National Kidney Foundation - choose Nutrition to see a list of brochures and fact sheets on diet
• Nephron Renal Nutrition Pages - links to diet information for different treatments, tips about protein, fluid, potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, emergency diet, and information about what to do until you get started on a renal diet; can be downloaded and printed as a PDF
• The Well-Nourished Patient - links to diet facts, articles, general nutrition information, guidelines, and more
• U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference - a searchable database that lets you type in a food and get its nutrient content
  • Directory of Foods - reports are sorted by food description, or ranked from highest to lowest by nutrient content; uses common household measures
  • Alphabetical list of foods containing cholesterol
  • Alphabetical list of foods containing phosphorus
  • Alphabetical list of foods containing potassium
  • Alphabetical list of foods containing protein
  • Alphabetical list of foods containing sodium