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More than 25 million Americans have kidney disease, and many more are susceptible to the disease, often because of their lifestyles, diets, ethnicity and family history. The best way to treat chronic kidney disease is to catch it in its earliest stages. This is a disease that can completely destroy any ability the body may have to filter waste from the bloodstream, and often, patients require dialysis, and in the worst-case scenarios, kidney transplants.

It is essential that everyone have protein in their diets for a number of reasons, including: to promote muscle growth and recovery, tissue growth and recovery and overall good health, not to mention energy. But it is even more important that patients receiving renal care have the proper amount of protein in their diets, because different amounts are needed throughout the five different stages of renal disease. For example, those who are in stage one or two of their disease need less protein than the average person, while the patients who are in the end stage of renal failure, stage five, require more protein in their diets than the average person.