Year: 2011

New Year’s Resolution Time

New Year’s Resolution Time

All right everyone, get ready because the first of the year is coming up, and we all know what that means. Time to make a new year’s resolution that can be broken as quick as possible so that we can move on with our lives. 

Ring in the New Year with Kidney-Friendly Party Snacks

Ring in the New Year with Kidney-Friendly Party Snacks

Counting down the New Year with your favorite friends usually includes a few tasty treats and a glass of bubbly. Enjoying special times while having to watch your kidney diet can be a challenge, but thanks to DaVita® dietitians, you can serve up some mouthwatering snacks and 

Healthy New Year’s Checklist for People with Kidney Disease

Healthy New Year’s Checklist for People with Kidney Disease

It’s a new year and a great time to make sure your health is in order. The following checklist can be taken to your doctor to review your overall well-being. In addition, Dr. Mary Meyer, who has been practicing in the areas of critical care, 

Spend wisely this Season

Spend wisely this Season

First and foremost, be careful this holiday season! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6NJwB305Y[/youtube] Every winter, Americans spend about $450 billion on food, gifts, decorations, and other holiday wares. But how many of these dollars are spent frivolously, even foolishly? The average American spends more than $20 on holiday gifts 

Top 10 Anti-Aging Foods

Top 10 Anti-Aging Foods

1. Spinach Spinach is high in antioxidants, which help in reducing the slowdown and weakening of learning capabilities and damage of the central nervous system. The rich vitamin C and vitamin E content in spinach is the antioxidant source that helps in this particular case. 

Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating for Patients on Dialysis

Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating for Patients on Dialysis

By Margaret, DaVita dietitian in El Paso, Texas We’re all familiar with the busy schedule of the holiday season. We rush through shopping, decorating and holiday parties. On top of all that, there is an extra challenge: continuing healthy, safe eating habits during the holidays. 

Holiday Eating Tips for People on Dialysis

Holiday Eating Tips for People on Dialysis

After Halloween (and all the diet pitfalls that holiday brings), it seems there’s an array of foods tempting us to overindulge. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and New Year’s Day all seem to revolve around traditions that include food. Because diet is so critical for people 

Happy Holidays Brunch for the Kidney Diet

Happy Holidays Brunch for the Kidney Diet

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or just enjoy all the festivities this time of year, our renal-friendly brunch menu and tasty recipes will make this holiday season more delightful. Many times people on a dialysis diet either feel they must deprive themselves of yummy 

Holiday Blues and Chronic Kidney Disease

Holiday Blues and Chronic Kidney Disease

Written by DaVita Social Worker Arlene Antonoff, LCSW, BCD The holiday season is here, along with the anticipation of seeing family and friends, exchanging gifts and sharing traditional foods. Movies and television programs will be showing holiday specials. Stores, shops and offices will be playing 

Healthy Meals for People with Diabetes

Healthy Meals for People with Diabetes

Diabetes can be a debilitating disease if it gets worse, but you can enhance the quality of your life by keeping to the right diabetic diet. In order to find out what the best meal options should be you will definitely have to talk to