Cleveland Clinic Found Staff
1 Book's info is obsolete and could cause harm
This book was written in 1985 (and printed in 1987)! That is almost 20 years ago and obviously not in line with today's knowledge about renal problems or failures. For instance, this book pays no attention/ignores "phosporus", the level of which a patient has to monitor very carefully to avoid serious additional health problems. Anyone with renal problems should review this book with their doctor before using any of its recipes, or better yet, the book should be totally revisioned or taken off the market before it hurts people.
2 Wonderful Cookbook!!
I have had this book for several years, we have tried just about every recipe in it and they are all great! I get complements all the time on the wonderful food, no one believes that the recipes are from the Renal cookbook.
My grandchildren especially love the spaghetti sauce.
3 Creative Cooking for Renal Diets
I bought this book for my mom who is operating on less than 50% kidney function. The recipies are appetizing but a bit out of date. The recipes we tried were very good. The book needs to list the amounts of protein, salt, potassium and phosphorous in the servings. Elderly people who are restricted in those areas need that additional information to help them stay in compliance.
4 Renal Diets Cookbook---AWESOME!!
I am very happy with this cookbook...my husband has an inherited kidney disease and my son has inherited potential cholesterol and heart problems from hsi fahter's family...I have tried unsuccessfully to create meals that are healthy and appetizing and finally this book has managed to help me meal plan for us all...and since we are a family of 3, we will have meals to freeze or take to lunch the next day...I would recommend this book to ANYONE in need of low protein, cholesterol, sodium diets...
5 Holiday Gift
Our hemodialysis units recently purchased 500 copies of creative cooking for renal patients from Mr. Jim Senay of Senay Publishing. Mr. Senay was a pleasure to work with and provided the books at an excellent discount. We feel we are providing our patients with a resource which will promote their health care and enhance their enjoyment in cooking. All the recipes are in large print and are divided into catigories for easy use. If you are interested in offering this resource to your patients I would highly recommend you contact Mr. Senay.
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6 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Creative Cooking for Renal D
I feel that although this cookbook is a good resource for Dialysis patients that it can be improved with some updating. Nutrition and cooking trends have changed, not only for the general , but also for Renal Community. Some of the basic recipes are good, I have actually tried them myself. It would be nice to have a few ethnic recipes also, as this seems to be a very popular trend. Patients could also see that a favorite family recipe representing their ethnic origin can indeed be adapted to fit their renal dietary guidelines. This familiar association would only be an encouragement, thus improving nutritional status. Photographs of the finished recipe may entise the reader to actually try the recipe if they liked the way it looked. It could be a guide to the finished product for the beginner. Many patients have not cooked or paid attention to their diets at all up until the point of needing dialysis. I believe they would be inspired to try a recipie if they could see what the finished product looked like, and also a few diagrams for the steps neccessary to get to the finished product. The print is large in this book making it easy to read for patients. I included this cookbook as part of a Holiday basket for a patient raffle. The patient that won the basket said she never owned a cookbook prior. It gave her the extra encouragement to stay on the diet and now has recently obtained a transplant!
