Diabetic Kidney Disease Diet | Inflammatory Foods to Avoid

This video is about Diabetic Kidney Disease Diet, and inflammatory foods that you should avoid. If you have diabetic kidney disease, you wanna avoid this list of foods because they’re considered pro-inflammatory. If you eat these foods and your diet and eat them often, you’ll develop kidney failure much faster. You wanna avoid red meats, processed meats, organ meats, refined carbohydrates like white bread, white rice, even though those foods may be okay for other people who don’t have diabetic kidney disease, you should avoid it.

Any type of desserts, cakes, pies, candies, sugary drinks, soda, even juices could be pretty high in the glycemic index. Avoid sports drinks, Snapples, all those, anything sugary, sweetened soda. Also make sure to avoid fried foods, very inflammatory like french fries, and avoid alcohol. Alcohol’s also a proinflammatory food. 

Studies have shown for many years that an improper diet can cause inflammation for kidney disease patients. This can be very detrimental for your kidney health. Diet is an integral aspect of dealing with many health conditions, and this is no different for chronic kidney disease and diabetic kidney disease. There is a strong link between pro-inflammatory diets and a higher risk of developing kidney failure, identified as end stage renal disease (ESRD) in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). So what foods lead to inflammation? Many foods in the common American diet cause inflammation. Pro-inflammatory foods include refined carbohydrates (unlike high-fiber, whole-grain carbs), sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, red meat, soda and other carbonated beverages, and fried foods. Vegatables are not off the hook either.

Some vegetables, such as those in the nightshade family — including tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers — can cause inflammatory reactions. Symptoms of acute inflammation can mimic flu-like symptoms and include Redness, Fever, Muscle stiffness, Loss of appetite, Headaches and other ailments.