Food Network Chef to Visit Charleston, Reno and
Baltimore to Demonstrate Kidney-Friendly Game-Time Cooking Tips
Football season is back in full swing, and Fresenius Medical
Care North America (FMCNA), the nation’s leading network of
dialysis facilities, is once again teaming up with celebrity chef
Aaron McCargo, Jr. to help dialysis patients share the excitement –
and the fabulous food – that goes with America’s favorite sport.
FMCNA is bringing chef McCargo to several U.S. cities this fall to
demonstrate his recipes for delicious, game-time dishes that
dialysis patients can enjoy, while staying within their dietary
guidelines.
Celebrity Chef Aaron McCargo, Jr. will be
visiting three U.S. cities with Fresenius Medical Care this fall to
share football-season recipes for dialysis patients and their
families. (Photo: Business Wire)
More than 450,000 Americans depend on regular dialysis
treatments to remove waste products and extra fluids from their
blood after their kidneys have failed. And because it is difficult
for them to eliminate excess potassium, phosphorus, and salt,
dialysis patients have to limit their consumption of many foods
containing those substances – including bread, cheese, milk, nuts,
tomatoes, sweets and salty snacks – while also consuming enough
high-protein foods to remain healthy and strong.
Chef McCargo – host of Food Network’s “Big Daddy’s House”
cooking show – will visit several FMCNA clinics in the coming weeks
to share cooking tips, recipes, and food samples with dietitians
and local media. He’ll talk about some of his tastiest
kidney-friendly dishes, such as smoky salmon dip, spicy turkey
chili, and jalapeno, lime and smoked mozzarella turkey burgers.
McCargo’s fall tour will start in Charleston, S.C., on Sept. 17,
and continue in Reno, Nev., on Oct. 4 and 5, and in Baltimore, Md.,
on Oct. 10.
For the past three years, McCargo has worked with FMCNA’s
dietitians to develop recipes that can be enjoyed by dialysis
patients and their families alike, thanks to his signature “flavor
of bold” cooking style, which features fresh ingredients and
flavorful seasonings such as ginger, lemon zest and cayenne
pepper.
“We’re very pleased to be sponsoring chef McCargo’s
football-season tour,” says Robin Russell, lead dietitian for
FMCNA’s North Texas region, who has collaborated with the chef on
several recipes. “Football games are a favorite time to socialize
with friends and family, whether at home or at the stadium, and
people living with kidney failure need to learn how they, too, can
participate in the fun by preparing healthy, kidney-friendly
foods.”
Chef McCargo and FMCNA offer the following ideas to enhance
football season cuisine for dialysis patients and their
families:
Five Ideas for a Kidney-Friendly Football
Feast
1. Use a dry rub, rather than marinade, to prepare spicy
chicken or turkey wings for tailgate grilling. If more seasoning is
needed, serve with Weber® or other low-sodium barbecue sauce on the
side.
(www.ultracare-dialysis.com/RecipeCenter/DryRubbedBarbecueTurkeyWings)
2. Skip the beans, which are high in potassium, when
making chili. Instead, try this delicious kidney-friendly chili
recipe with turkey breast, sauteed onions, bell pepper and celery.
(www.ultracare-dialysis.com/RecipeCenter/TurkeyChili)
3. Serve salmon dip with crunchie veggies, such as celery
sticks or carrots, for a tasty, protein-rich chilled appetizer
that’s low in sodium and phosphorus.
(www.ultracare-dialysis.com/RecipeCenter/SmokySalmonDip).
4. Spice up turkey burgers with diced jalapeno peppers,
lime and smoked mozzarella cheese, for a low-fat grilling
alternative.
(www.ultracare-dialysis.com/RecipeCenter/TurkeyBurger)
5. Opt for orzo, rather than high-sodium and phosphorus
boxed pasta salads, in this appetizing fall harvest salad that also
includes apples, cherries, basil, blue cheese and almonds.
(www.ultracare-dialysis.com/RecipeCenter/ChefMcCargoFallHarvestOrzoSalad)
FMCNA encourages people to visit its Healthy Lifestyles website
at www.ultracare-dialysis.com/HealthyLifestyles/ for more of chef
McCargo’s kidney-friendly recipes and to view his online cooking
demonstration videos. Dialysis patients can also find fitness tips,
videos, and other information there about staying active and
maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The media is welcome to attend McCargo’s events. To arrange
interviews or photos, contact Thea Bakkar Blum, at
bakkart@fullandby.co or 1-858-349-5790.
About Fresenius Medical Care North America
Through its leading network of more than 2,150 dialysis
facilities in North America and vascular access centers,
laboratory, pharmacy and affiliated hospitals and nephrology
practices, Fresenius Medical Care provides renal services to
hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States,
Mexico and Canada. It is also the continent’s top producer of
dialysis equipment, dialyzers and related disposable products and a
major supplier of renal pharmaceuticals.
For more information about the company, visit www.fmcna.com; for
information about patient services, visit
www.ultracare-dialysis.com.
About Chef Aaron McCargo, Jr.
Chef Aaron McCargo, Jr. competed on and won season four of “The
Next Food Network Star” in 2008, beating out thousands of culinary
hopefuls for the ultimate dream job – his own Food Network show.
“Big Daddy’s House” premiered in 2008 and continues to be a
success. On “Big Daddy’s House,” Aaron shares his passion for big,
bold flavors and fun, family cooking, bringing a down-to-earth vibe
and warm smile to the kitchen. He recently published his first
cookbook, “Simply Done, Well Done.” Whether cooking for his
children, relatives, friends, or even himself, big food and big fun
reign supreme. FMCNA and Aaron have been working together since
2011 to encourage dialysis patients to get back in the kitchen by
developing dishes with big, bold flavors that they can enjoy, while
still adhering to the restrictions of their dialysis diets.
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Media contact:Full & ByThea Bakkar Blum,
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