Specifically written for patients undergoing dialysis treatment, this guide provides important nutritional and dietary information to improve the patients' quality of life during dialysis and to prolong their lives.  Presented in a concise, easy to read format, complete with food analyses and charts, The Guide To  Nutrition and Diet for Dialysis Patients.

    Patients addresses thirty-eight of the most commonly asked questions on diet and nutrition, offering essential knowledge for dialysis patients  and their families.  This book also includes a series of lists for patients to use in identifying foods with high calcium, potassium, sodium and phosphorous contents.   This guide is relevant for all people concerned with dietary consumption.

About the Author: 

    Shuang Chen, M.D., R.H.(AHG) is an experienced practitioner in Chinese & Western herbal medicine combined with homeopathic medicine in the US. She is also an experienced dermatologist &

mycologist in China and Japan. Dr. Chen graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University in China thirty-four years ago and had further study in Teikyo University, Medical School, Dept. of Dermatology &

Mycology in Japan in the 80’s. She is a member of The Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology.

    Dr. Chen has devoted her practice to natural medicine and has favored herbal medicine and nutrition over the past fifteen years. Dr. Chen focuses on the search for effective therapies using Oriental & Western herbal medicine and nutrition to treat skin diseases, venereal diseases, and fungal infected disorders. She had distant study in homeopathic medicine and obtained a Master Herbalist Diploma from the Australasian College of Healthy Sciences in Portland, Oregon of the US. Dr. Chen is a Registered Herbalist in the US. Besides being a member of the American Botanical Council, a member of the American Herbalist Guild and a member of the Delta Epsilon Tau in the US, she is also a medical research writer.