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Week of June 10, 2008
Straight talk on the Big Three: Sodium, Phosphate, and Potassium

Do you ever feel like your food choices are too limited? Are you discouraged
when the low sodium food you just discovered is high in phosphorus? Did you know
that sometimes your favorite protein might have unexpectedly high salt? Gaynell
Irving gives listeners some straight--very straight—talk about negotiating the
fast food menu, salt substitutes, thirst, dairy products, liquids and much more.
Here’s some encouragement to drive straight on the food highway.
With your Hosts...
Stephen Furst
got his big break into movies in
"Animal House," in which he played Flounder. Stephen has also
starred as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in "St. Elsewhere" and as Vir Cotto in "Babylon5." He is
a successful television and movie producer/director and a kidney patient.
Lori
Hartwell is the author of Chronically Happy - Joyful Living in
Spite of Chronic Illness, and President/Founder of Renal Support Network.
A kidney patient since the age of two, she has consistently strived to
instill hope into the lives of people who live with chronic kidney disease.