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Fat Burning Index is the only thing in the world that can predict
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Atkins
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Research
by Tanya Zilberter,
PhD
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Text in green: Institution where the
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Please note thatches data concern not Atkins but Ketogenic diet,
which is more stringent, requiring protein limitation along with sever
carbohydrate restriction, and limiting water intake to avoid ketone
bodies dilution. However, even with these nutritional disadvantages
(comparing with Atkins
diet,) it doesn't look dangerous. Quite to the opposite, it can be
curing
for a range of ailments beyond epilepsy.
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Babies
and Children's Hospital of New York: The Ketogenic diet: a
practical guide for caregivers
The Ketogenic diet has been in use for nearly 70
years . Our modified diet has been in use for more than 3 years
at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Babies and Children's Hospital
of New York. The majority of parents and children find our diet more
acceptable and/or more user friendly than other types of Ketogenic
diets. Thus, compliance is better. The variety of foods offered is
greater and provides a more normal diet than the other types of
Ketogenic diets. In addition, the calculations for nutritionists are
easier, and parents are able to adjust the diet without the fear that
their child will lose ketones.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association., 98(3):316-21,
1998 Mar.
Centro Ricerche di Nutrizione Umana e
Dietetica, Universita, Pavia, Italy: Drug resistant epilepsy
treated with Ketogenic diet
A 4-year old girl affected by intractable seizures was treated with
Ketogenic diet. The child remained on the diet for 8 months and had a decrease in seizure frequency of 90%. No
serious side
effects were reported and it was possible to discontinue
antiepileptic drugs.
Our results confirm the efficacy of Ketogenic diet in the treatment of
epilepsy. Since it is known that 20 to 30% of all patients with
epilepsy do
not have their seizures completely controlled with established
antiepileptic drugs,
it would be useful to increase the application of this
dietetic treatment
in selected patients in Italy as it already happens in other countries.
Recenti Progressi in Medicina, 88(2):77-9, 1997 Feb.
Kinderspital, Landeskrankenanstalten
Salzburg, Osterreich: Diagnosis and therapy of
mitochondriopathies.
Defects of the
mitochondrial energy production cab be expressed in many tissues
and may lead to varioustypes of diseases. The application of various
new therapeutic agents,such as antioxidants, radical scavengers and
cofactors have not come toany persuasive clinical result. But there is
a number of reports about somesuccessful treatment
with coenzyme Q10, vitamin K3,
vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamin,dichloroacetate, and
ketogenic diet.
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 109(3):93-9, 1997 Feb 14
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland: The Ketogenic diet:
1997. [Review]
The Ketogenic diet's current success rate, when properly
executed,greatly exceeds that of the medications which have recently
become available.Its side effects, both cognitive and allergic, appear
fewer than most available medications. The mechanism of action of the
Ketogenic diet appears torely on a fundamental change in the brain's
metabolism from that of a glucose-based energy substrate to a
ketone-based substrate. If we could understand how the Ketogenic diet
"works," how changing from a glucose substrate' to aketone body
substrate is anticonvulsant, then perhaps a medication couldbe
developed that would simulate the biochemical effects of the
Ketogenicdiet. The Ketogenic diet offers a new
paradigm, and perhaps
will stimulate new approaches.
Advances in Pediatrics, 44:297-329, 1997.
Department of Pharmacology, University of
Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia:
Regulation of GABA level in rat brain synaptosomes: effectsof
glutamate, calcium, and ketone bodies. It is concluded that when
levelsof ketone bodies increase, and maintain at a higher value, the
synaptosomalcontent of GABA elevates, a phenomenon that may contribute
to the beneficial effect of a Ketogenic diet in
the treatment of epilepsy.
Journal of Neurochemistry, 67(6):2325-34, 1996 Dec.
Department of Applied Physiology Medical
Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland: Effect
of low-carbohydrate-Ketogenic diet on metabolic and hormonal responses
to graded exercise in men.
Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) and lactate threshold (LT) weremeasured
during graded, incremental exercise in 8 healthy, untrainedvolunteers
following 3 days on a Ketogenic (50% fat, 45% protein and 5%
carbohydrates) diet. It is concluded that the short-term Ketogenic diet does not impair aerobic exercise capacity, as
indicated by elevated VO2 max and LT.
Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology, 47(2):361-71, 1996
Jun.
Department of Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA: Cognitive effects of
Ketogenic weight-reducing diets.
To determine whether Ketogenic weight reducing diets have adverse
effects on cognitive performance, 21 overweight women (mean BMI = 41
kg/m2)remained on the diet for 28 days and were reevaluated
periodically with briefmeasures of cognitive performance assessing
attention and mental flexibility.
Performance on
attention tasks did not differ as a function
of the diet . However, performance on the trail making task, a
neuropsychological
test that requires higher order mental processing and flexibility, was
adversely affected by the Ketogenic diet. The worsening in performance
was observed primarily between baseline and week one of the Ketogenic
diet.
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