← brief for 2026-09-10 · Nutrition & lifestyle

Dietary Patterns for Obesity in CKD: Mediterranean, Low-Carbohydrate, and Plant-Forward Approaches-What Fits Best?

Key takeaways

This review compares three ways of eating for people who have both obesity and kidney disease: the Mediterranean diet, mostly-plant diets, and low-carb or keto diets. Extra weight and kidney disease make each other worse, and older advice that just cut single nutrients often left people with poor nutrition or a plan they could not stick to. The authors argue whole eating patterns fit better, but this is a summary of other studies, not a new trial. It shows which patterns look promising, not proof that one of them protects kidneys.

Who did this work

Zhang F · Huang L

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD nutrition RCTs · 2026 Sep 10
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42722219/