Epilepsy Diet Treatment: Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet - Softcover

Freeman, John M.

9780939957866: Epilepsy Diet Treatment: Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939957868 ISBN 13: 9780939957866

Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing, 1996

One in five children with epilepsy has seizures resistant to medications. The ketogenic diet offers a good chance for these children's seizures to be controlled, and helps many children to become completely seizure-free and drug-free. The Epilepsy Diet Treatment is the only book devoted exclusively to the ketogenic diet, a treatment proven to improve seizure control in nearly three-quarters of the children who try it. The Epilepsy Diet Treatment gives you all the facts about the ketogenic diet, plus quotes from parents showing what the experience is really like, and thirty sample recipes. Every doctor and dietician who treats epileptic children, and every parent of an epileptic child, should read this book.

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Review:

It will end up being the most well read book you own and every keto home should have one. My copy went everywhere with me when Matthew was on the diet and I can't recommend it highly enough.-Emma Williams, CEO/Founder - Matthew's Friends Charity - Dietary Treatments for Epilepsy - GLOBAL. Director - Matthew's Friends Clinics Ltd for Ketogenic Dietary Therapies Praise for the Fourth Edition: ""While this is a profoundly rigorous diet, with potentially serious side effects, Freeman, Kossoff, et al. discuss every facet of the process with clarity and professionally restrained optimism. Under proper guidance and with real dedication, this diet may be the path to recovery for children with difficult-to-control seizures."" Kirkus Reports ""A 'must'...Very highly recommended as a top alternative to medication for kids with epilepsy."" The Midwest Book Review ""This book is easy to read... Anecdotes from families that have used the ketogenic diet are interspersed throughout the chapters and make the...text more interesting, and bring the diet to life... This book is highly recommended for pediatric consumer health libraries."" CAPHIS Consumer Connections ""If we had had the information in this book fifteen months earlier, a vast majority of Charlie's $100,000 of medical, surgical, and drug treatment would not have been necessary, a vast majority of Charlie's seizures would not have occurred."" From the Foreword by Jim Abrahams, Director, The Charlie Foundation to Help Cure Pediatric Epilepsy

About the Author:

Eric Kossoff, MD - Dr. Eric Kossoff is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and a member of The John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center, as well as the Division of Pediatric Neurology. His clinical practice specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood seizures and epilepsy, especially involving diet and other non-surgical options.||John M. Freeman, MD is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and has spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University, where he has spent most of his career. In 1969, he created and assumed directorship of the Johns Hopkins Child Neurology Program. His contributions have made the Center a leader in the field. He has written nearly 150 articles, 41 book chapters and seven books or editions of books including, The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Children and Others with Epilepsy, and the award-winning Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide|is the Ketogenic Dietitian for the John Freeman Epilepsy Center at The Johns Hopkins University responsible for all nutritional aspects for patients following the ketogenic diet, including education, follow up and menu planning.| is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician on the full-time staff at Kennedy Krieger Institute and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. </p

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