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Posts Tagged ‘diet’

Ketogenic Diet – A History

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The Ketogenic diet is not by all means a new treatment. Claims for a dietary treatment of epilepsy are very old, (even before any anticonvulsants were available). Earlier attempts to a diet for epilepsy include: salt restriction, protein restriction, acid-ash diets, water restriction (to provoke dehydration), etc. There is even a reference to fasting as a “cure” for seizures in the Bible.

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PKU and the 3 R’s

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I remember when I first started seeing my dietitian on my return to the diet, sounds a bit like a movie title! PKU and the return of the Diet!! She explained to me that to help maintain consistently low blood Phe levels, management will involve a three-pronged approach known as the 3 R’s: Record, Restrict, and Replace. I must Record the amount of Phe I consume, Restrict my diet to the right amount of low-Phe foods, and replace those higher-Phe foods with low-Phe alternatives, such as Phe-free protein supplements like Lophlex and Add-ins. I know this type of management is not a cure, but it has been effective in helping to prevent many of the symptoms of PKU in myself such as the drowsiness and bad temper. So remember the 3 R’s: Record, Restrict, and Replace.

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What is the ketogenic diet?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

It’s Friday and I want to have some fun- so I’m going to post about the ketogenic diet. I’ll introduce the concept of dietary treatment of epilepsy now. I’ll discuss how these diets might be working in a later post. Of course, I’m no doctor and most of this info has come from research I’ve done on the web so please feel free to correct me if you don’t agree with anything. 

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