Your nutrition needs change throughout life as your body changes. As your needs change, so should your food choices. If you have kidney disease, you and your doctor should talk about lowering your protein intake to around 10 percent of daily calories. A healthy intake of fat is 30 percent or less of your daily calories. Daily cholesterol intake should be 300 milligrams or less.
Cholesterol is found in dairy products, eggs, and meats.
In general, Americans eat too much fat. To reduce our risk for heart disease, we all need to eat less saturated fat and cholesterol. Because having diabetes puts you at increased risk for heart disease, you have even more reason to watch your fat intake. The rest of your daily calories will come from carbohydrates, which are found in fruits, vegetables, beans, dairy foods, and starchy foods such as breads. Sugar is a type of carbohydrate.