Ingredients for a Healthier Tomorrow In celebration of Nutrition Month and Dietitians Day (March 16), the Kidney Community Kitchen would […]
Category: Sodium
How To Create Your Own Spice Blend
Submitted by Emily Campbell, RD CDE MScFN Sodium (salt) is a mineral found naturally in foods and table salt. Most […]
Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy: Why Lowering Your Sodium Intake Matters
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 […]
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 […]
