Kidney Dietitian

25/08/2024

Have a look at our kidneyally website www.kidneyally.com and our facebook group

Helping kidney patients make personalised healthy food choices.

09/01/2024

Have a look at our kidneyally website www.kidneyally.com and our facebook group with over 24K people.

Helping kidney patients make personalised healthy food choices.

07/01/2023

I am delighted to announce our new Kidney nutrition and lifestyle website is live. I have joined forces with a patient partner Carl Joseph Juresic to create kidneyally.com
and we are here to provide all the nutritional educational needs of kidney patients. In addition, we have an informative and interactive Facebook group which people have really benefitted from. Please do tell and share with people you know who have kidney disease.

20/10/2021

Results from trial to tackle anaemia in patients on dialysis show that high doses of iron can improve outcomes for patients on haemodialysis.

13/09/2021

🚨 Please read ALL of this!⁠ 🚨⁠
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Phosphorus comes in organic and inorganic forms.⁠
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Foods with organic phosphorus include, ⁠
→ Dairy⁠ 🧀⁠
→ Beans⁠
→ Meat⁠ 🥩🍗⁠
→ Nuts⁠ 🥜⁠
→ Seeds⁠
→ Grains⁠ 🌾⁠
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This isn't necessarily bad, because we can't absorb all of the organic phosphorus.⁠
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👉🏼 BUT any of these types of foods can also have inorganic phosphorus. ⁠
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⚠️ Inorganic phosphorus is not good because we can absorb most of it. This is the kind that is bad for our heart, blood vessels, and skin.⁠
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💚 You can read more about low phosphorus foods on our blog. www.plantpoweredkidneys.com/low-phosphorus-foods

18/07/2021

The best means to fight is prevention: it is thus paramount to identify and to treat all of its possible risk factors, such as obesity. Having a healthy diet can help to maintain an ideal body weight, reduce your blood pressure, prevent diabetes, heart disease and other conditions associated with .

13/06/2021

Hey you, kidney warrior.... ⁠
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Pssst: we're rooting for you! 💚⁠
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Your renal dietitians want nothing more than to see you and your kidneys thrive. ⁠
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So this is your friendly reminder that you are amazing, your kidneys are amazing and your kidney journey is amazing too 🥰

10/06/2021

Be careful who you take nutrition advice from! ⚠️ Sadly I see WAY too many self-proclaimed ‘experts’ pushing overly restrictive diets, unnecessarily supplements and invalid tests…

But it can be so tricky to know who to trust when anyone with an account can be giving out nutrition advice. Am I right?!

I am all about empowering you guys- so here’s what to look out for and what the titles mean so you can sift the facts from the fiction.

✅ Dietitians are the only nutrition professionals regulated by law, meaning we’re bound by an ethical code of conduct to make sure you’re protected.

To be a dietitian, you need at least a BSc (usually 4 years) or postgrad degree in dietetics - rooted in science and clinical practice.

How to tell? 'Dietitian' is protected in the UK so you can't call yourself one unless you've done the degree. In the US look for ‘RD’ letters or ‘APD’ in Aus.

Every dietitian is a nutritionist, but not every nutritionist is a dietitian.

✅ Registered nutritionists are regulated by their local bodies (AfN in the UK) and are qualified to share info about food and healthy eating. Look for 'ANutr' titles.

I know lots of brilliant nutritionists - but the term ‘nutritionist’ is totally unregulated, so literally anyone can call themselves one. And sadly some do even if they’ve only watched a 1-hour webinar on nutrition... 😬

I’d like to think advice is mostly given with good intentions - but all too often it’s given without any science to back it up. And without regulation, it can be really risky.

3 questions you should ask before taking nutrition advice (if they’re the real deal, they won’t mind the questions!)

🔹Do they have a valid nutrition degree (with hands-on training as an added bonus)? Or is it just a personal interest?
🔹Do they have a regulatory body?
🔹Do they keep up-to-date with the latest nutrition research that’s constantly evolving? Or are they relying on outdated info?

If they don’t have the right qualifications, go ahead and throw that nutrition ‘advice’ in the BS bucket 😉

Disclosure: having the ‘right’ qualifications doesn’t automatically mean they’ll be good 🙈 but it does give you more protection.

14/01/2021

We need you - can you help? 👇

We're running a project to improve our understanding of how different groups of people might like to support the charity. This will include looking at how we talk about our work and the ways people might want to get involved in supporting us.

For this part of the project we specifically want to hear from people who are black or south Asian because kidney disease can impact people from these groups more severely.

We're looking to chat to a range of people - different ages, genders and different experiences - with kidney disease, including patients and people who have friends or relatives with kidney disease.

Do you think you can help? Please share with friends and family who you think might be interested too.

To take part you'll need to be happy to chat for 90 minutes about your experiences.
Everyone who takes part will be offered a fee* as a thank you for their time.

If you're interested in taking part please let us know here 👉 https://bit.ly/34EcK7E

(*The fee is optional to accept, and people can donate it back to the charity or another charity of their choice).

05/01/2021

Dr Venughanan Manikavasagar answers questions from British Asians about the new jab in Tamil.

08/10/2020

About your donation Monthly donation One-off donation Donation amount £ Update £20 a month could help more patients like Maddy who has no option of a transplant, she needs our research for her future. £10 a month could help more researchers like Mike Nicholson who has pioneered a way to make more...

27/09/2020

NHS recommends people with chronic kidney disease follow stringent social distancing measures