Latest Ketogenic diet Stories
Physicians will have a better guide for more effectively managing treatment of children experiencing seizures related to autism with the results of a study by researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Texas-Houston.From 25 to 35 percent of people with autism will eventually experience full-scale seizures. Many others will have seizure-like brain activity, in which there is no obvious effect on muscles but potential effects on brain functioning, such as temporary loss of...
SAN DIEGO, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Roughly 25-35% of individuals with autism eventually develop seizures and many of the remainder have subclinical seizure-like brain activity. However, little is known about which traditional epilepsy treatments and commonly used non-traditional alternative treatments are effective for treating seizures or epilepsy in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. A study just published in BMC Pediatrics by Dr. Richard E. Frye from the...
US researchers said on Wednesday that kidney failure is a main complication of diabetes, but a lab study on mice showed that a high-fat, low carbohydrate diet could reverse that in eight weeks. The options of the diet may include scrambled eggs with cream, a bacon and butter omelet, or lettuce doused in mayonnaise. The doctors believe that the diet might work for diabetics by blocking the toxic effects of glucose. The team took two groups of mice that were genetically predisposed to having...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Diabetics now have a new reason to cut back on sugars and starches. A new study found that a low-carb diet might help reverse kidney damage in people who have type 1 and type 2 diabetes.For the first time, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the ketogenic diet, which is a specialized high-fat and low-carb diet, may help reverse kidney failure. For the study, Charles Mobbs, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience and Geriatrics and Palliative Care...
Dr. Oz evaluated the outdated Simeons and Kevin Trudeau HCG Diet Protocol. Dr. Oz says "anyone offering 500 calories per day is starving themselves". Diet Doc HCG Diet and Weight Loss President, Julie Wright agrees and explains that their HCG diet plan is based on 1,000 to 1250 calories per day with patients still realizing safe, rapid weight loss. Puyallup, WA (PRWEB) March 10, 2011 On February 22, 2011, Dr. Oz did a segment on HCG weight loss plans and states the 500 calorie...
On February 22, 2011, Dr. Oz spoke about the HCG Diet and states the 500 calorie diet is not safe. Diet Doc HCG Diet and Weight Loss Program does not offer the unsafe, outdated 500 calorie diet. Their unique HCG diet consists of 850 to 1,250 calories per day. Diet Doc HCG Diet and Weight Loss Programs train doctors across the country on their unique, modern day HCG diet protocol. HCG means human chorionic gonadotropin which is a hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta. It is...
The high-fat ketogenic diet can dramatically reduce or completely eliminate debilitating seizures in most children with infantile spasms, whose seizures persist despite medication, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study published online April 30 in the journal Epilepsia.Infantile spasms, also called West syndrome, is a stubborn form of epilepsy that often does not get better with antiseizure drugs. Because poorly controlled infantile spasms may cause brain damage, the Hopkins...
Current and former patients treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet to control multiple, daily and severe seizures can be reassured by the news that not only is the diet effective, but it also appears to have no long-lasting side effects, say scientists at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.A study report supporting their conclusion, and believed to be one of the first analyses of the long-term safety and efficacy of the diet, appears online in the February edition of the journal Epilepsia.The...
BOSTON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Epilepsy Research Foundation (ERF), a unique joint venture of non-profit epilepsy organizations, and the Milken Family Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation, today announced two new grants recognizing promising epilepsy research in clinical development, totaling $225,000 in funding. The grant awards were announced by the Epilepsy Therapy Project and the Epilepsy Foundation, as well as the Milken Family Foundation, during the 7th Judith Hoyer...
Children on a high fat diet to stem seizures may ward off kidney stones with a supplement, U.S. doctors said. The study, published in Pediatrics, looked at 301 children being treated for seizures with the ketogenic diet at Baltimore's John Hopkins Children's Center. It found children receiving the supplement potassium citrate were seven times less likely than others to develop kidney stones. Senior investigator Dr. Eric Kossoff said the ketogenic diet given many children whose seizures are...
