Today is Earth Day, an extra special reason聽to plan a聽 听尘别补濒.
Eating meatless for one day has a positive impact on your health by lowering your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. If you already have one or more of these diagnosis, a meatless day can potentially benefit you by decreasing saturated fat and calorie intake. This is a healthy step for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or those at risk for CKD, because heart disease and diabetes are risk factors for kidney disease. Another plus for going meatless at least one day a week鈥攍ess meat consumption is friendly to the environment. The more livestock we raise for meat sources, the more we use natural resources and聽produce waste聽that adds聽to land pollution.
If you are following a kidney diet, you may聽be limiting protein if you are in聽stages 3-5, non-dialysis. Many people with CKD find incorporation of meatless meals helps them stick to a lower protein diet.
聽If you are following a dialysis diet, you may be eating more meat or high protein foods as your protein needs must replace protein lost in dialysis treatments and provide extra for your body. You can still participate in Meatless Mondays by choosing a non-meat entr茅e that聽 provides a healthy serving of high quality protein, or add a high protein shake or protein supplement to your meal.
Celebrate Earth Day and Meatless Monday by considering one of these kidney-friendly聽vegetarian recipes聽today or any day.
