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Cooking Demo: Dietary Considerations for Patients with IgA Nephropathy
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About This Event
Cooking Demo: Dietary Considerations for Patients with IgA Nephropathy
Background
In this webinar, Registered Dietitian Lauren Levy and Immunoglobulin A (IgA) Nephropathy (IgAN) patient and Kidney-Friendly Chef Anthony Valentine will share their combined expertise in IgAN and nutrition. They will start by providing an overview of IgAN, including Chef Anthony’s personal experience as a chef with IgAN. Anthony will then share a cooking demonstration of a delicious kidney-healthy recipe that can be enjoyed by patients with IgAN and their families alike. Registered Dietitian Lauren Levy will provide an overview of nutritional concepts—including macronutrients such as protein, and electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, and phosphorus—in IgAN, and provide dietary recommendations for patients with IgAN. She will also provide a nutritional analysis of Chef Anthony’s recipe.
Did You Know?
While researchers have not found evidence that diet and nutrition play a role in causing or preventing IgAN, there are still many diet-related steps that can help lower a patient’s risk of worsening CKD due to the disease, including limiting sodium intake and increasing plant-based protein in the diet1.
Why Attend This Webinar?
It is important that clinicians have a better understanding of dietary recommendations for patients with IgAN to help improve patient outcomes and encourage patients with IgAN to follow a kidney-healthy diet.
What You Will Learn
In this Episode:
- Registered Dietitian Lauren Levy and Kidney-Friendly Chef Anthony Valentine come together to bring their expertise in nutrition and IgAN, including discussing the basics of nutritional concepts – such as sodium and protein – in patients with IgAN
- Chef Anthony shares his culinary journey including his personal connection with IgAN and modifications he makes to his own diet as a result
- Watch Chef Anthony prepare a delicious kidney friendly meal that can be enjoyed by patients with IgAN as well as their families and caregivers
- Tofu Stir Fry
- Lauren Levy will provide a nutritional analysis of Chef Anthony’s essential ingredients and recipe
References
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. IgA Nephropathy. September 2022. Accessed October 8, 2024. IgA Nephropathy – NIDDK (nih.gov).
Speakers
Lauren Budd Levy, MS, RDN, CSR
plant-based eater; Lauren believes kidney health is a lifestyle and not a diet. Kidney disease impacts all aspects of life and food choices are vitally important for kidney health. Making kidney-friendly changes can delay or prevent the progression of kidney disease.
Anthony Valentine
in 2013. He was later diagnosed with IGA Nephropathy (IGAN) in April 2017. On January 31st, 2019, he received a new kidney from his mother. Post-transplant life will never be the same, and neither will his diet. So, combining his diagnosis of IGAN with his degree in culinary arts and nutrition, he created Cukebook.org. Cukebook is a website that documents recipes, guides, tools, and resources designed to help people fighting chronic kidney disease.
Moderator
Sara Nam, PharmD, BCCCP
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.*
Sara Nam, PharmD, BCCCP is a Medical Science Liaison at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC) covering the Pacific Northwest Territory. Dr. Nam earned her Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma and completed her postgraduate general pharmacy residency at Oklahoma State University Medical Center and her postgraduate critical care pharmacy residency at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. Prior to joining Otsuka, Dr. Nam practiced as an Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Specialist at the Methodist Health System in Dallas, TX and as a Portfolio Executive for Pharmacy Sourcing at Vizient, Inc. Dr. Nam holds a board certification in critical care pharmacotherapy.
Lauren Budd Levy is a paid consultant of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.
Anthony Valentine is a paid consultant of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.
Sara Nam is an employee of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.
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