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Diets for Diabetic Renal Disease Persons

According to information from the medical website Medline Plus, diabetes is a disease characterized by the body's inability to properly manage its blood sugar levels. Fortunately, diabetes can be treated through compliance with a carb-restricted diet. The situation becomes more complex, however, where diabetes is combined with renal disease. Renal disease carries with it its own type of dietary restrictions, requiring careful balancing to balance your renal dieting efforts against your diabetic goals.

  1. Renal Dieting

    • Renal diets are not expressly related to diabetic dieting in any way, being recommended for individuals who have kidney dysfunction. Nevertheless, it is possible for an individual to have both diabetes and kidney disorders concurrently, necessitating a duel-diabetic and renal diet. Renal dieting means restricting your consumption of the following food types: protein, sodium, potassium, and phosphorous. According to information from Medline Plus, you should limit daily protein consumption to only 0.6g per kilogram of bodyweight (which translates to roughly 40 to 60 grams of protein a day). Accomplish this by limiting your consumption of meat and dairy products while carefully counting protein grams from other sources to avoid straying over the limit. Sodium should be limited to less than 2,000mg per day, which can be accomplished by avoiding the use of table salt and always purchasing fresh (never pre-prepared or canned) food at the store, as the latter tend to have a significant amount of added sodium. Limiting potassium and phosphorous involves nothing more complex than avoiding certain foods, such as: dairy, nuts and nut butters, liver, sardines, soft candy (e.g. caramel), beer, chocolate, broccoli, bananas, oranges, raisins, tomatoes, apricots, potatoes, and coffee.

    Diabetic Dieting

    • According to information from Medline Plus, diabetic dieting means controlling the types of carbohydrates that you consume to avoid spiking your blood sugar to any unreasonable degree. This means eating slow-digested carbs like whole grains, fruits, and vegetables--so long as they are not otherwise restricted by the confines of your renal diet. Sample items which comply with both a diabetic and renal diet include the following: apples, brown rice, beans, cucumber, whole wheat noodles and pasta, pears, grapes, cherries, whole wheat breads and cereals, oats, onions, and lettuce. Combine these items with a small amount of protein (to comply with the renal diet) and a moderate amount of unsaturated fat (via oils, nuts, and seeds) to formulate a plan that complies with the needs of both diabetic and renal dieters.

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