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Epilepsy diet



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DOCTORS believe a high-fat diet can help children seriously afflicted with epilepsy.
Among children given the diet, seizures dropped by more than a third over a three-month period.

At the same time, children not given the diet experienced a more than 33% rise in seizures.

The ketogenic diet has been successfully used to treat children with drug-resistant epilepsy since the 1920s. However, this was the first time it had been tested in a trial.

The diet consists of large amounts of fat, little carbohydrate and controlled amounts of protein.

It is thought to mimic the biochemical response to starvation.





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  • Last Updated: 04 May 2008 12:04 AM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
 
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OldWife,

05/05/2008 19:59:11
This has been tested in trial, over 80 years ago and very successfully, it is the only treatment that works. What is the matter with the British system that they refuse to believe that anything works until they spend millions testing it themselves. Don't they trust the testing and success rate of Johns Hopkins University Hospital, one of the greatest medical institutions in the world to treat thousands of kids, or are the British trying to kid the world that they actually invented the ketogenic diet. Tough luck, NHS, the Yanks beat you to it. How many British kids died from epilepsy when a simple change to their diet could have saved them but no-one did their research.

In the same vein, the British claim they are two or three years away from a vaccine for Meningitis B, well news for you again, Cuba has had this vaccine for over 25 years. How many British kids have died because the powers that be were so afraid of US backlash that they wouldn't ask for the vaccine from Cuba? Politics or health?

 

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