Lose Weight for Kidney Failure Patients

Overweight or obesity can make it difficult to control Kidney Failure patients' blood pressure and blood fat. Thereby, if renal failure patients are overweight, they had better take some healthy methods to lose their weight.

The healthiest way to lose weight is to make a few diet and lifestyle changes. Take weight-loss pills or go on a hunger strike that is more likely to affect patients' overall health condition. Today, we are here to introduce several ways to help kidney failure patients lose their weight.

1. Tweak the lifestyle

Weight can reflect people's lifestyle to a large extent, so losing weight should begin from modifying patients' lifestyle. Several practical methods are helpful for these patients.

- Avoid to eat out at restaurants

- Try to fit in small bouts of exercise

- Do exercise with other persons for mutual supervision

- Quit smoking and alcohol

- Clean out your pantry like ice cream, chocolate and fried foods

- Have a 300-calorie breakfast instead of skipping breakfast

- Never skip meals or eat erratically

- Adhere to your exercise plan for long term

From the advices listed above, we can know a healthy eating habit, regular exercise and getting rid of bad habit are the basic requirements to lose weight and stop weight from gaining.

2. Eat foods as your renal dietitians guide

In renal failure, patients' recipes are quite restricted, so patients should make clear what foods they can eat or not eat in detail. To reduce the burden on kidneys and control weight, patients are always suggested to eat more low-potassium fruits and vegetables, and limit meat.

3. Take some natural remedies

In China, acupuncture is one natural and effective therapy to reduce kidney failure patients' weight through improving patients' blood circulation and metabolism system. As more fat is burnt, more weight can be lost.

In addition to these methods, many others are also helpful. If you are interested, we are glad to share them with you.

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