Nutrition, Diet & Recipes

Articles

Balancing Food and Kidney Health, By Gail Kessler, retired dietitian, RKDF Volunteer, rarekidney.org

Newsletters

Summer 2020: The Renal Warrior: A Second Chance to Live

Fall/Winter 2018: Eating Your Way Through Kidney Disease, Vegetable Dip recipe

Fall 2015: Pearls of Knowledge for Kidney Patients, Take Charge of Your Renal Nutrition

Summer 2014: A Fight to Live: From Morbid Obesity to a Living Donor Kidney Transplant; What to Have Instead of Potato Salad and Barbecued Sauce-Slathered Chicken?

Videos

“Renal Diets: Basic, Dialysis & Post-Transplant” by Adriana Maza, Tamara Nijmeh, and Julia Pierce. This webinar covers diet and nutrition for any stage of kidney disease — CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease), Dialysis or Post-Transplant. March 23, 2025

Download the Basic Renal (CKD) Diet Presentation Slides

Download the Nutrition on Dialysis Presentation Slides

Download the Transplant Nutrition Presentation Slides

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Wilson Du: The Renal Warrior

Lauren Levy: Eating Your Way Through Kidney Disease

Links

DaVita Diet & Nutrition Tools & Resources

Mayo Clinic: Low-phosphorus diet: Helpful for kidney disease?

​National Kidney Disease Education Program: Potassium Tips for People with Chronic Kidney Disease

National Kidney Foundation (NKF): Nutrition 

National Kidney Foundation (NKF): Spice Up Your Diet 

National Kidney Foundation (NKF): Dash Diet 

National Kidney Foundation (NKF):  Plant-based Diet and Kidney Health 

National Kidney Foundation (NKF): Nutrition & Early Kidney Disease (Stages 1-4) 

National Kidney Foundation (NKF): CKD Dietitian Directory 

National Kidney Foundation (NKF): Recipes

Satellite Healthcare: My Diet on Dialysis 

Zippy Dip From the NKF Cookbook “Living Well on Dialysis”