The Food as Treatment - Cookbook for patients with kidney failure

From its very onset, chronic kidney disease requires its patients to undergo many lifestyle changes. Perhaps the most difficult and the one demanding the greatest effort is the change in eating habits.
Having chronic kidney disease and having to submit to kidney replacement therapy does not mean, however, that you cannot try new recipes and enjoy different dishes.
In addition to meeting your nutritional needs, eating is a cultural trait with deep emotional connections. From our childhood, we create eating habits based on rewarding experiences and moments of affection.
Changing such habits requires a revision of our customs, accepting constraints and adapting to a new phase in our lives.
Some nutrients will have to be reduced, such as salt and phosphorus, but that does not mean we must forget that there are other spices and condiments to enliven our meals.
This new phase of life, opening one’s self to changing the way dishes are prepared can expand the range of flavors and tastes and make the lifestyle change a pleasurable challenge.
More than presenting new culinary recipes, our intention in preparing this book is to show that, with a few tips and suggestions, we can maintain the tastiness of the dishes we enjoy. Respecting certain limitations, traditional recipes are reinvented without losing their characteristics of texture, aroma and color.
The act of eating is a journey through the senses. We must open, not only our mouths, but our hearts, in order to enjoy the journey to the utmost
Enjoy your reading and have a pleasurable journey into gastronomy.