Arising in Ancient Greece and used by Hippocrates, the ketogenic diet is an alternative to antiepileptic medication when the drugs prove ineffective or poorly tolerated.
It was noticed that the diet led to a decrease in seizures and decreased consumption of carbohydrates and proteins combined with a high fat intake enabled to tame the epilepsy for a few months, and even a few years.
However, because of its high fat content, this diet is restrictive to implement (carbohydrates are everywhere even where they are least expected) and to follow up (it is a particularly unbalanced die in which fat rules).
Three mothers of children on the ketogenic diet met to swap advice and tips, but especially savoury and “nearly” sweet recipes with parents of sick children.
They review the history of this diet, its prescribing conditions, its indications and offer hundreds of recipes tried and tested by their children.
CONTENTS:
1st part
The ketogenic diet and its variants
Medicine aspects
In practice
2nd part
Savoury recipes
“Almost” sweet recipes
Annexes
Little ketogenic pleasures
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ISBN : 978-2-7420-0818-6
Printed in:
French
Discipline:
Medicine, Medicine / Dietetics / Nutrition, Medicine / Neurology - Epilepsy, Medicine / Pediatrics and Neonatology
Publication date: 21/11/2011