You may need to limit the amount of sodium in your diet. Learning to read labels can help you make lower sodium choices. Sodium is found in many foods, but is especially high in the following:

• Table salt and foods with added salt such as snack foods, soups and processed cheese, shev, chiwada, ghee chakali etc.
• Some canned foods, prepared foods and fast foods
• Bakery items, pickles, souces, papad, salted nuts
• Smoked and cured foods such as ham, bacon and luncheon meats

Sodium

	Can be taken	To avoid
Low salt diet – 1500 mg/day About <1 teaspoon of salt	Cook food without salt	Canned foods – high sodium content
	Pack and keep the intended salt intake for the day	Baked foods - high sodium content
	Add the packed salt in the serving just before consuming
	Lime juice, pepper

Your kidneys may not be able to remove phosphorus from your blood. This causes the level of phosphorus in your blood to become too high. A high blood phosphorus level may cause you to lose calcium from your bones. This may weaken your bones and cause them to break easily.

To help control the phosphorus in your blood, you should eat fewer foods that are high in phosphorus.

Phosphorus is found in many foods:

• Dairy products such as milk, cheese, pudding, yogurt and ice cream
• Dried beans and peas such as kidney beans, split peas and lentils
• Nuts and peanut butter
• Beverages such as cocoa, beer and cola soft drinks

Phosphorus

	Can be taken	To avoid
Phosphorus restriction	Egg white	Milk and dairy products
Most foods with high potassium have high phosphorus	Soy milk	Chocolates
	Almond milk	Meat
		Whole wheat cereals
		Beverages – cola, beer

Vitamins and minerals come from a variety of foods you eat each day. If your diet is limited, you may need to take special vitamins or minerals. Take only the vitamins and minerals your doctor orders for you. Certain vitamins may be harmful to people with kidney disease

Because you are getting fewer calories form protein, you will need to get more calories from other foods

Avoid losing too much weight because it can cause malnutrition and lead to illness. Some ways to increase calories are as follows: (for non diabetics)

• Increase unsaturated fats such as vegetable (oils made with corn, cottonseed, Sun flower soybean or sunflower oils) olive oil and mayonnaise-type salad dressings
• Kheer made from rice, sabudana, rava, milk products like gulabjamun, rasgulla, cham-cham etc.
• Use sugar such as honey, jam, jelly

100g	Calories	Carbohydrates (g)	fat (g)	Protein (g)
Dal	300	50	2	20
Milk	60	5	5	3
Paneer	300	20	20	20
Vegetable	50	2-6	1	2-4
Roots	100	10-20	0.5	1
Fruits	50-100	10-50	0.5	1-2
Meat	200	Nil	13	20
Nuts	500	20	50	20
Sugars	400	100	0.5	0.5
Rice	350	50	1	10

Calories provided by most Indian food