Submitted by Dani Renouf, RD, MSc, CDE Making sound food choices helps prevent and manage health conditions. Reducing your salt intake is one way to keep blood pressure under control […]
Category: Sodium
Personalized kidney nutrition
Submitted by Roxanne Papineau, Dt.P nutritionist at IUCPQ, President of the Quebec Nephrology Nutritionists’ Association (RNNQ) Kidney disease can vary […]
Korean Food and Your Kidneys
Photo credit Image by 709 K from Pixabay Submitted by Hanna Kim, Nutrition Student, and Dani Renouf, RD, MSc, CDE One of the […]
Starters: Appetizing Appetizers that taste great and are renal friendly
Submitted by Karen Sevong MScFN RD CDE CPT Appetizers are versatile in many ways and enjoyable all year round. It […]
Being “Sodium-Safe”: 5 Tips to Flavour Food without Salt
Sodium (commonly known as salt or sodium chloride) is important for regulating blood pressure, nerve and muscle function, and acid-base […]
Making the Most Out of Your Groceries During COVID-19
The need for physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our approach to some of the basic things we […]
Navigating a Food Bank in COVID Times
In Canada, over a million people are regularly using food banks every month, and the need is expected to rise […]
Less Salt, More Flavor: How to Pair Foods and Spices
By Dani Renouf, RD As a dietitian, the favorite part of my work is informing clients that they CAN have […]
Planning for a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season!
The holidays are right around the corner and whether you’ve already started planning, shopping and wrapping or you leave it […]
Read those labels!
Sometimes being a dietitian feels a bit like being a detective. Every once in a while I will come across […]
Buyer Beware
Somehow the fall always seems to be such a busy time of year both at work and at home. All […]
Salt – making the news
Lately the media has been reporting a lot on a recent Cochrane Review and suggesting that perhaps salt reduction isn’t […]
Time Flies!!
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been a year since I started doing a blog for the Kidney […]
Salt – cut back when you can’t cut it out!
There are few things that bring me back to my childhood more than the smell of warm, fresh baked bread. […]
Label Reading for Sodium
I had an excellent question recently from someone who is struggling with label reading for a low sodium diet and […]
Shake Up your BBQ without a Salt Shaker
It’s hard to believe that September is here and summer is almost over! I thought I’d spend a bit more […]
Welcome to my blog!
I am very excited to be involved in the new Kidney Foundation of Canada Website! What a wonderful resource for […]
