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Dos and Don’ts in Kidney Nutrition: Practical Considerations of a Panel of Experts on Protein Restriction and Plant-Based Diets for Patients Living with Chronic Kidney Disease

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By Massimo Torreggiani, Carla Maria Avesani, Adamasco Cupisti, Barbara Contzen
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1. Introduction Dietary management is a pillar of the conservative management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The observation that most of the body’s nitrogenous wastes are produced by the catabolism of dietary proteins, and that the burden of acid and phosphorus that need to be excreted comes from animal foods, led Thomas Addis to propose low-protein diets (LPDs) to treat people living with CKD as early as the 1930s [1].
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