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From: food on 6 Jul 2008 16:19
24 years ago I was on an earlier form of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal
Dialysis and was asked by the dietitian to come for a clinic visit. She
wanted to know just what i was doing that other patients were'nt as my
results were far better than most. She was quite disappointed when I told
her that I was using McCance and Widdowson and following her advice but with
the book I was able to substitute and fine tune my diet. It is a lot of
tables of the comosition of food, hence it's title. It looks daunting at
first, but combine it with information given to you by your Renal
Department, and a bit of study is extermely helpful. Your dietitian can only
give so many alternatives but CAREFUL study of this book is useful. Try
Amazon. I am not sure if it is republished regularly, but staple foods will
have the same composition, commercially processed may change. McCance and
Widdowson's the Composition of Foods: Summary Edition (6th Edition)
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/McCance-Widdowsons-Composition-Foods-Summary/dp/0854044280/ref=sr_1_1/203-1620420-5320702?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215375343&sr=8-1>
by Sir John Krebs and Great Britain. Food Standards Agency

I hope this helps.
From: Larry Krzewinski on 6 Jul 2008 17:42
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:19:06 GMT, food @anywhere.com wrote:

>24 years ago I was on an earlier form of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal
>Dialysis and was asked by the dietitian to come for a clinic visit. She
>wanted to know just what i was doing that other patients were'nt as my
>results were far better than most. She was quite disappointed when I told
>her that I was using McCance and Widdowson and following her advice but with
>the book I was able to substitute and fine tune my diet. It is a lot of
>tables of the comosition of food, hence it's title. It looks daunting at
>first, but combine it with information given to you by your Renal
>Department, and a bit of study is extermely helpful. Your dietitian can only
>give so many alternatives but CAREFUL study of this book is useful. Try
>Amazon. I am not sure if it is republished regularly, but staple foods will
>have the same composition, commercially processed may change. McCance and
>Widdowson's the Composition of Foods: Summary Edition (6th Edition)
><http://www.amazon.co.uk/McCance-Widdowsons-Composition-Foods-Summary/dp/0854044280/ref=sr_1_1/203-1620420-5320702?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215375343&sr=8-1>
>by Sir John Krebs and Great Britain. Food Standards Agency
>
>I hope this helps.

I used "Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used" and
had similar results when I was on hemodialysis. It really allows you
to eat almost anything once you realize what the chemical composition
of any food is and it al boils down to portion control. It also had
food composition for frozen food and fast food listed. My dietician
told me the book was considered the dietician's bible when it came to
food composition.

You can find it on Amazon here:

http://tinyurl.com/3auh8a

Larry
From: Chuk Goodin on 8 Jul 2008 12:13
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:42:20 -0700, Larry Krzewinski <Feerless_Freep(a)madmagazine.com> wrote:
>>I hope this helps.
>
>I used "Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used" and
>had similar results when I was on hemodialysis. It really allows you
>to eat almost anything once you realize what the chemical composition
>of any food is and it al boils down to portion control. It also had
>food composition for frozen food and fast food listed. My dietician
>told me the book was considered the dietician's bible when it came to
>food composition.

Yeah, I love Bowes & Church, we used it with my daughter when she was on
dialysis. Our edition had EVERYTHING -- including stuff like "roast
opossum" and "whale blubber".

There's an online database from the USDA that's pretty good:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

You can vary portion sizes and stuff like that, it's pretty comprehensive,
too.


--
chuk
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