The Renal Patient's Guide to Good Eating: A Cookbook for Patients by a Patient (Hardcover)

by Judith A. Curtis (Author), Thomas Batis (Illustrator) "Perhaps the most important thing I've learned from my experience with kidney failure and dialysis, and more recently as a transplant recipient, is that I..." (more)
Key Phrases: renal diet, total fat, renal patients (more...)

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Product Description
As a patient, the author, Mrs. Curtis, relates her own experience in dealing with the renal diet. Through a positive approach, she demonstrates that sometimes when you "make the best of it," the results are better than if the problem had not occurred. Fellow patients will recognize many of the author's feelings and obstacles as their own. The second edition of THE RENAL PATIENT'S GUIDE TO GOOD EATING includes many new dishes as well as nutritional information for all recipes. This should make it easier for renal patients and their dietitians to determine how these dishes can best fit into their diet plans. The analyses can be used as a guide to appropriate serving sizes for each patient's daily allowances of sodium, potassium and phosphorus. Great care has been taken to include complete nutrition information wherever possible. This cookbook is suitable for anyone. It does not separate the "dieters" from others. There will be no whispered requests for the salt shaker because the taste is there, in the form of herbs, spices, wine and other "allowed" flavorings. Especially valuable are the sections where salt is typically relied upon heavily, namely, meat, fish, poultry, sandwiches and vegetables. There are recipes ranging from appetizers to desserts, quick and simple to the more elaborate. The author provides guidelines for adjusting to a healthy heart diet, as well as to renal diets, which require more or less stringency. This book is certain to enlighten and inspire anyone with kidney disease, from the newly diagnosed to the more experienced. With this book, the doctor's answer to his patient's question "Could you give me some more ideas for meals?" can be answered with "I have just the book for you!" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 199 pages
• Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher (September 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0398056110
• ISBN-13: 978-0398056117
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,929,860 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Returned for refund - Not worth the $$$, August 26, 2004

By	Lorelle (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Renal Patient's Guide to Good Eating: A Cookbook for Patients by a Patient (Plastic Comb)

This is the first book I have retuned to Amazon!

I was, at first, impressed by the per serving numbers given at the bottom of every recipe -- all so wonderfully low! Then when I got around to reading the actual ingredients I found the author expects everyone to eat less than my 9# Shih Tzu (and ingredient combinations most dogs would refuse). The portions are ALL extremely small! Eating only what this author recommends would be a starvation diet for most adult renal patients, and especially for my 210 pound husband. By the time I doubled the portion sizes the nutritional values were near what I usually prepare from my regular recipes using low sodium products, and fresh ingredients.

Many of the recipes had ingredient combinations I would never have tried. I know my husband won't eat any kind of fruit preserves on any kind of meat. Though some of the desserts looked yummy the portions sizes were almost infinitesimal

If the book were $9.95, I probably would have kept it for some of the tips like soaking fresh vegetable overnight to leech out the naturally occurring elements my husband must limit. But at the current price it was not worth it.

Also, there was a printing error which omitted the index pages from the letter D to letter P, but I would have returned it even if all of the pages had been there.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Very Useful For Our Purposes, April 17, 2005

By	Jill Bell - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Renal Patient's Guide to Good Eating: A Cookbook for Patients by a Patient (Plastic Comb)

This book might be more useful with a higher kidney function, but we bought the book with less than 20% function, and most of the recipes include low sodium soy sauce and parmesan cheese, and we have to keep sodium levels too low for that, so I really couldn't use any of the recipes.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless for low-protein dieters, October 16, 2005

By	Mountain Mama "mountainchick" (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Renal Patient's Guide to Good Eating: A Cookbook for Patients by a Patient (Plastic Comb)

Many of us kidney patients need to eat a low-protein diet to avoid dialysis. This book does not address protein at all!! It lists several delicious-looking, low-sodium recipes that are probably fine for dialysis and transplant patients. But for me? Worthless. I'm sending it back for a refund.