(And in this specific low-sodium case, I get that, and not even a bag of chips.) Other than off-label treatments with big drugs to keep his disease in check until some genius researcher finds a cure, there’s really only one other thing we as his family can do to physically ‘help’ him: we all live on a sodium-restricted diet.įor AJ this is life, for the rest of us it’s a choice an easier than you might think and delicious life choice. I’m this kid’s mom and therefore a lifetime-in-training-student in feeding a family, with special requirements, with 10+ years’ experience. Every month of the past nine years and all the months going forward is Kidney Month in our home, but we’ll take a month of call-out to share, why not, right? His disease is a leetle bit complicated, it can have its own whole post another day. This beautiful, amazing, sentient, red-dyed-hair-tips-sporting, proud-pink-hoodie-in-support-of-our-friends-at- Ballet X-wearing, bookworm-of-a-brainiac, crazy-comic book-loving, deep thinking, teddy bear of an old soul, loyal AF (I’m his mom, I’m allowed to say that) and sometimes grape-catching kid has a chronic kidney disease.Īnd March, just happens to be National Kidney Month. Reality Check: The Mediterranean & DASH Diets Are Our Lives I am not a dietician nor a medical expert, but clearly these diet judges don’t have their Momming Priorities straight. But if push comes to shove, you can have the salt.
Don’t get me wrong, chunky sea salt lover of a good crisp chip that I am…that is not a choice I want to have to make.
DASH DIET RECIPES FULL
A long, full stop, Mom Pause: Am I allowed to take a very serious matter and insert some mom sarcasm/humor for a hot minute? If you are basically the same diet and effectively telling me I can trade out concern for wine intake with concern for salt intake, how on earth did you get to Number One? Obviously I’d rather enjoy a glass of wine and cut the salt. They both encourage lean proteins such as chicken or fish. The Mediterranean diet also emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, with moderate alcohol intake. Mediterranean DietĭASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) emphasizes eating whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and limiting salt. In 2018 we wrote about our Mediterranean Diet, otherwise known around here as “ How we eat, M ost of the time.” The Mediterranean Diet just trumped, in 2019, what had previously held the number one spot for the prior eight years, and bumped it, the DASH Diet, down to the number two spot according to US News and World Report.
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