the kidneys fulfill an essential functionl in our body, to eliminate waste and fluids. We may ignore them and only notice them when the disease appears. But on days like today, World Kidney Day, we took the opportunity to remember those healthy habits that help us preserve good kidney health. And a healthy diet, for example, is one of the most important factors when we are not yet suffering from a pathology. Even when there is a kidney problem, proper nutrition is also part of the treatment. As stated by Dr. Manuel Angoso, nephrologist and head of the Vithas Valencia Review Unit October 9, to take care of kidney health you must bet on “a diet low in salt and animal protein, as well as avoid food processed and canned containing salt “.
– How to make a diet healthy, varied and balanced?
For his part, Dr. José Luis Neyro, gynecologist at the Hospital de Cruces, in Bilbao, the diet in chronic kidney patients must be carefully individualized, because each patient is a world and the amount of proteins and the type of them that each one must consume must be meticulously assessed by the nephrologist who carries out the control of his disease. This is less important in the successfully transplanted patient, but is crucial in what is on dialysis. Therefore, there are no general rules in this regard, “he notes.
But, as we said, 1 healthy lifestyle may reduce the risk of kidney disease. These are the advice of experts.
– Healthy diet: 8 fruits and vegetables with healing power