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Nearly 800,000 patients in the United States have end-stage kidney disease, with more than 550,000 receiving maintenance dialysis (
In October 2020, the National Academy of Medicine released its
Health food stores abound in strip malls. Vitamin shops are a multibillion dollar business. Consumer labeling such as “gluten free,” “heart healthy,” “organic,” “non-GMO” and “contains anti-oxidants” adorn food labels, encouraging purchase. Organic foods and farmers markets have become the newest trend. The overall goal of equating nutrition with health is becoming better recognized, but messaging is filled with contradictions from food marketers, the media, and health care. People generally want to be healthy and recognize that good food may be the way to go, but following a “diet” can have a negative, forced, or even punitive connotation. “Diet” usually