Events Feature Cooking Demos, Risk Assessments
and Advice to Help Kidney Patients Eat Well and Stay Active
This March, in recognition of National Kidney Month, Fresenius
Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the nation’s leading dialysis
provider, will host a series of “Healthy Lifestyle Days” in select
clinics nationwide. The company is helping people with kidney
failure live better lives on dialysis by encouraging them to eat
well and stay physically active. Open to the public at no cost, the
events are geared towards patients, their families and anyone who
wants to assess their risk for developing chronic kidney disease.
FMCNA will provide kidney screenings and wellness experts, tools,
recipes and tips.
For National Kidney Month, Fresenius
Medical Care is bringing celebrity chef Aaron McCargo, Jr. to
Houston, Atlanta and Detroit to demonstrate how to prepare
delicious dialysis-friendly dishes that patients and their families
can enjoy, while staying within their dietary guidelines. (Photo:
Business Wire)
FMCNA will also bring celebrity chef Aaron McCargo, Jr. to its
Healthy Lifestyle Days in Atlanta, Detroit and Houston to
demonstrate recipes for delicious dialysis-friendly dishes that
patients can enjoy, while staying within their dietary guidelines.
Chef McCargo from Food Network’s “Big Daddy’s House” will visit
FMCNA clinics in these cities with high rates of kidney disease to
share cooking tips, recipes, and food samples with event attendees.
McCargo’s Healthy Lifestyle tour will start in Houston, Tex., on
March 3, move to Atlanta, Ga., on March 12 for World Kidney Day,
and conclude in Detroit, Mich., on March 18.
More than 450,000 Americans whose kidneys have failed depend on
dialysis treatments, typically three times a week, to remove waste
products and extra fluids from their blood. The dialysis diet has
strict limitations on foods such as bread, cheese, milk, nuts,
tomatoes, sweets and salty snacks that contain high levels of
potassium, phosphorus, and salt, which can be harmful to dialysis
patients. But that doesn’t mean their meals have to be boring or
bland. In fact, McCargo has applied his signature “flavor of bold”
cooking style featuring fresh, flavorful ingredients and
seasonings, with the help of FMCNA dietitians, to develop dozens of
recipes that can be enjoyed by dialysis patients and their families
alike.
“Dialysis patients are used to hearing all about what they can’t
eat,” says McCargo. “During National Kidney Month, Fresenius
Medical Care and I are going to be telling them about some of the
great things they can eat. We’re taking several of our favorite
recipes out on the road, to share the message that eating well can
help patients live longer and enjoy life more.”
Also during Healthy Lifestyle Days, FMCNA will remind dialysis
patients that regular activity is one of the best ways for them to
improve their overall health and quality of life. Patients who
walk, bike, dance, garden, swim or engage in other physical
activities can strengthen their heart and other muscles, increase
joint flexibility, improve circulation, digestion and sleep, and
help to control their blood pressure and body weight. Increased
activity has also been shown to reduce inflammation and depression,
and to decrease the risk of hospitalization.
Dialysis patients should talk with their physician before
starting a new fitness program. Once they are cleared to do so,
FMCNA nurses, social workers and dietitians can help patients of
all fitness levels create customized programs for increasing their
physical activity.
For more information on FMCNA’s Healthy Lifestyle Days, please
visit www.ultracare-dialysis.com/HealthyLifestyles/. Chef McCargo’s
recipes and online cooking demonstration videos are also available
there, along with fitness tips, videos, and other information about
staying active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
About Fresenius Medical Care North America
Through its leading network of more than 2,150 dialysis
facilities in North America and vascular access centers,
laboratory, pharmacy and affiliated hospitals and nephrology
practices, Fresenius Medical Care provides renal services to
hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States,
Mexico and Canada. It is also the continent’s top producer of
dialysis equipment, dialyzers and related disposable products and a
major supplier of renal pharmaceuticals. For more information about
the company, visit www.fmcna.com; for information about patient
services, visit www.ultracare-dialysis.com.
About Chef Aaron McCargo, Jr.
Chef Aaron McCargo, Jr. competed on and won season four of “The
Next Food Network Star” in 2008, beating out thousands of culinary
hopefuls for the ultimate dream job – his own Food Network show.
“Big Daddy’s House” premiered in 2008 and continues to be a
success. On “Big Daddy’s House,” Aaron shares his passion for big,
bold flavors and fun, family cooking, bringing a down-to-earth vibe
and warm smile to the kitchen. He recently published his first
cookbook, “Simply Done, Well Done.” Whether cooking for his
children, relatives, friends, or even himself, big food and big fun
reign supreme. FMCNA and Aaron have been working together since
2011 to encourage dialysis patients to get back in the kitchen by
developing dishes with big, bold flavors that they can enjoy, while
still adhering to the restrictions of their dialysis diets.
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