The Renal Patient's Guide to Good Eating: A Cookbook for Patients by a Patient

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Summary: Index is fine
Review: For the person who wrote the previous review regarding the missing index, there is nothing missing from the index. There are several major categories in the index, such as Bread, Desserts, Poultry, Meat, and so on. The major sections are listed alphabetically and then all of the various index entries for each food type are listed alphabetically in each major category. In typeseting the index, however, someone included capital letters, such as "A" preceding the Appetizer section, and this shouldn't have been done because of the way the index was compiled and it may be confusing at first glance. Steps are being taken to modify this in future printings, but the book has sold very well for the publisher. It is a specialty book, but even so the paper edition is 226 pages with 30 illustrations and is very reasonably priced at $36.95.

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Summary: what to include?
Review: I need to know, if this book contain any table whit propiety abaut the fooods, by example , Na , P ,K , Ca , Proteins , Calorias , and others. I need this becose i'm renal transplantete and my P and K is high. I have to do a regimen nutritius.

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Summary: Returned for refund - Not worth the $$$
Review: This is the first book I have retuned to Amazon!

I was, at first, impressed by the per serving numbers given at the bottom of every recipe -- all so wonderfully low! Then when I got around to reading the actual ingredients I found the author expects everyone to eat less than my 9# Shih Tzu (and ingredient combinations most dogs would refuse). The portions are ALL extremely small! Eating only what this author recommends would be a starvation diet for most adult renal patients, and especially for my 210 pound husband. By the time I doubled the portion sizes the nutritional values were near what I usually prepare from my regular recipes using low sodium products, and fresh ingredients.

Many of the recipes had ingredient combinations I would never have tried. I know my husband won't eat any kind of fruit preserves on any kind of meat. Though some of the desserts looked yummy the portions sizes were almost infinitesimal

If the book were $9.95, I probably would have kept it for some of the tips like soaking fresh vegetable overnight to leech out the naturally occurring elements my husband must limit. But at the current price it was not worth it.

Also, there was a printing error which omitted the index pages from the letter D to letter P, but I would have returned it even if all of the pages had been there.