Description
When you have been given two different diets
This is a common and genuinely confusing situation. The cardiology clinic says reduce salt. The kidney clinic says reduce potassium and protein. The diabetes clinic has its own list. Nobody reconciles them, the three sets of advice contradict each other in places, and most people respond by giving up on all of it.
These 297 pages are one of very few resources that address that directly.
Sixteen conditions, then the combinations
Heart disease, high blood pressure and heart failure. Diabetes. Kidney disease at different stages. Liver disease. Gout. Thyroid conditions. Digestive conditions. Each covered on its own, and then — importantly — the common combinations, with guidance on which restriction matters most when they conflict.
Written for wherever you live
Built around food groups and principles rather than one country’s cuisine, with adaptations across different ways of eating. Dietary advice that assumes a single food culture is useless to most of the world, and this avoids that.
A note
Where conditions conflict, the book gives a general order of priority — but that ordering can differ for an individual, and it says so. Worth going through with your own doctor rather than substituting for that conversation.
PDF, lifetime access, at CardiologyBooks.com.
Dietary advice by condition
A medical diet for all diseases is only useful if it is specific. This guide is organised by condition — diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, fatty liver, gout, thyroid disease, coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease — and gives for each the changes that have measurable effect and the ones that are commonly recommended without support.
Global, and honest about conflict
Recommendations are given across cuisines rather than assuming a single food culture, with practical substitutions for South Asian, Mediterranean, East Asian, African and Western patterns. Where conditions coexist and their diets conflict — the patient with both chronic kidney disease and diabetes, or heart failure and gout — the book gives the order of priority rather than leaving the reader to reconcile two lists. Interaction between food and common medication is covered throughout.
