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Balancing nutrition for CKD on a Vegetarian diet
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If you’re considering a vegetarian diet or adding more plant based ingredients in your meals, read this blog post to learn our tips for eating vegetarian with CKD.
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Getting back to summer!
Ah summer! We are, finally, having some truly hot weather in Southwestern Ontario and I have been happily ignoring my […]
March: Kidney Health Month and Nutrition Month!
March is a busy month for renal dietitians! Not only is it Kidney Health Month but it is also Nutrition […]
Portions matter!
Doing recipe analysis for the renal diet is a far more complicated endeavor than I realized when I started out […]
Navigating the Food Bank on a Kidney Diet
18/12/2012 This is the season of giving and receiving and seems to bring out the best in everyone! I walk […]
A Wealth of Information
This fall, I had the opportunity to travel to Winnipeg for the Manitoba Renal Program conference. It’s always a pleasure […]
What’s it really like to follow a kidney diet?
While I talk (and blog) about the kidney diet a lot, I am fortunate enough not to have to fit […]
What about potassium additives?
Last month, I blogged about the growing body of evidence that has nephrology healthcare professionals worried about the potential public […]
Phosphate Additives May Become a Public Health Issue
Last week, I was at a conference in Washington, DC where my fellow dietitian Melissa Atcheson and I presented a […]
Spring is here!
After a winter that never really seemed to happen (in Ontario anyway) it is wonderful to see the spring! This […]
Read those labels!
Sometimes being a dietitian feels a bit like being a detective. Every once in a while I will come across […]
Important Notice: Information about your Kidney Community Kitchen meal plans
Dear Kidney Community Kitchen members, We recently experienced a technical problem with the Kidney Community Kitchen website. As a result, […]
The Kidney Diet Challenge
So how hard is the kidney diet? Over the years, I have met with many other health care professionals, students, […]
The Launch of the Kidney Community Kitchen
Last week I had the good fortune to attend the launch of the new nutrition website, www.kidneycommunitykitchen.ca, at Divino Wine […]
Happy Holidays
Food is an important part of any holiday or celebration. As I was thinking about what to write about for […]
New Resource for Kidney Friendly Recipes
I’m very excited to write about the launch of a new website dedicated to nutrition for people living with kidney […]
Phosphorus And the Progression of Kidney Disease
If you’ve read many of my blog posts or heard me speak then you probably know that I think phosphate […]
