Ketogenic Diets

Description

Sometimes referred to as a "miracle diet," the ketogenic diet has helped doctors treat difficult-to-control epileptic seizures in thousands of children. Coauthored by four respected experts from Johns Hopkins, Ketogenic Diets continues to be the definitive guide for parents, physicians, and dieticians wanting to implement this strict diet. Anyone who is placed on the Ketogenic Diet will be told, essentially "prescribed" by their doctor to get this book.

This Fifth Edition has been extensively updated to reflect current advances in understanding how the diet works, how it should be used, and the future role of the diet as a treatment. Six new chapters address how to integrate the diet into all cultures, religions, and taste preferences; new information on modified and less restrictive versions of the diet, and the Modified Atkins Diet for Epilepsy are included. The book also covers exciting new research that shows the diet may work for people with other neurological illnesses.

This best-seller also includes sample meal plans, a food database, how to calculate foods, and much more.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Section I Overview of the Traditional Ketogenic Diet

1 Epilepsy Today and the Place of the Ketogenic Diet in the World 3
2 What Is the Ketogenic Diet? 15
3 History of the Ketogenic Diet 21
4 How Does the Ketogenic Diet Work? 33
5 Is My Child a Candidate for the Ketogenic Diet? 39
6 The Diet for All Cultures, Religions, Food Preferences, and Allergies 49

Section II The ABCs of the Ketogenic Diet

7 Initiating the Ketogenic Diet: To Fast or Admit? 59
8 Calculating the Ketogenic Diet 77
9 KetoCalculator 105
10 All Those Crazy Supplements! 115

Section III Life on the Ketogenic Diet

11 The Expert Consensus and You 125
12 Fine-Tuning the Diet 131
13 Parent Support Groups and the Internet 155
14 Side Effects of the Ketogenic Diet 161
15 Making it Work at Home and on the Road 171
16 Going Off the Diet 183

Section IV Modified Ketogenic Diets

17 When and Why Should I Use Alternative Diets? 193
18 The History of the Modified Atkins Diet for Epilepsy (and Future Directions) 197
19 How Do I Use the Modified Atkins Diet? 205
20 The MCT Ketogenic Diet 215
21 The LGIT (Low Glycemic Index Treatment) 219

Section V Ketogenic Cooking

22 Sample Meal Plans for the Ketogenic Diet 227
23 Modified Atkins Diet Recipes 257

Section VI The Future of Diets and the Brain

24 Can the Diet Be Used Before Medications? 273
25 Adults and Diets 277
26 Diets and Other Neurologic Conditions 281


Section VII Appendices
A Medications and Keto-Friendly Products 289
B Sample Letter of Medical Necessity for Ketogenic Diet Formulas 297
C Atkins Carbohydrate Gram Counter 299
D Physicians Providing the Ketogenic Diet Worldwide as of November 2010 303
E Modified Atkins Diet Sample Meals 323
F Routine Ketogenic Diet Lab Studies for Children on the Diet 325
G Selected References 327

Index 331

Author

James Rubenstein, MD is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician on the full-time staff at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a clinician working primarily in the fields of epilepsy, autism, and cerebral palsy and other complications of birth injury. His main role and goal is to provide comprehensive care and follow up for children with developmental disabilities utilizing the latest techniques in clinical evaluation and laboratory investigation/technology.