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interesting paper.

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I'm always collecting evidence for the efficacy of low carb diets.
I contacted an epilepsy charity they use ketogenic diets to treat epilepsy. [since 1920 and it WORKS!]
A dietician sent me a paper called
"Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate [ketogenic] diets.
A, Paoli,A rubini JS Volek and KA Grimaldi
It's well worth a read.I've often been told that VLKD are not safe. this paper has a very calm paragraph, which pretty much wipes out any thoughts of dangers. It's not written in difficult language and cites 109 scientific references.
Hana
 
hanadr said:
I'm always collecting evidence for the efficacy of low carb diets.
I contacted an epilepsy charity they use ketogenic diets to treat epilepsy. [since 1920 and it WORKS!]
A dietician sent me a paper called
"Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate [ketogenic] diets.
A, Paoli,A rubini JS Volek and KA Grimaldi
It's well worth a read.I've often been told that VLKD are not safe. this paper has a very calm paragraph, which pretty much wipes out any thoughts of dangers. It's not written in difficult language and cites 109 scientific references.
Hana
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Hi Hana,

Thanks for this! Very interesting. I have made a lot of research on the Ketogenic diet, and I think this is a really nice, concise overview. As you could see from my signature, I'm very positive about the Ketogenic diet. It's had a great effect on my blood-sugar levels. I always low-carbed, but it was only after switching to the Ketogenic diet that I got my blood-sugar levels totally under control. I did not realise it at the time, but my consumption of relatively high amounts of Protein on my standard Low-Carb diet produced the higher blood-sugars. I now concentrate on consuming as much Fat as possible, with only adequate Protein, and I find this is really the perfect diet for me to manage my T1 Diabetes. Blood-sugar levels, blood-pressure levels (both on the high side previously) are now both in the ideal range, and a Ketone-powered brain (rather than a glucose-powered brain) completely changes the game with regard to Hypos.

I think the story of the Ketogenic diet is instructive in general. It really worked for epileptic patients in the 1920s, but it was largely forgotten about for decades due to the arrival of drugs for epilepsy. As with many other cases in medicine, we continue to make problems for ourselves due to a ****** diet, and then try to solve these problems with drugs and medical procedures. Eating natural, whole foods (in my case both animal and plant foods) does prevent a whole bunch of these problems from happening in the first place (imho). The fact that the Ketogenic diet is shown to be helpful in the fight against Obesity, Type-2 Diabetes, Heart Disease, Epilepsy, Cancer, PCOS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, is a clear hint in this direction I think.

Personally I would add Type-1 Diabetes to the list of conditions that the Ketogenic diet can help to fight against. (Not a cure, of course, but an extremely useful tool to manage the condition). All T1s are fighting a battle on 2 fronts - trying to prevent the long-term consequences of high blood-sugars and trying to avoid the immediate consequences of low blood-sugars. I am very happy that I found a diet which simultaneously neutralises both of these threats.

Regards,
Antony
 
Anthony
I have a lifelong T1 husband with many complications. Some are defintely irreversible, but the bit in that paper about ketogenic diet helping with nephropathy in rats, has made us think of trying it for him. It's a safe option and well worth it if it works for him. much better than dialysis.
Hana
 
Hi Hana,

I wish you the very best of luck with the diet if your husband goes for it . . . I hope it can acheive some positive things for you both. After your Post, I looked back at my own Post which now seems rather unsympathetic. It was not meant in that way, and hopefully you did not interpret it as such!

I have a reference book for the Ketogenic diet which I'd be happy to pass on to you, if you would like it? It's the guidebook to the diet by Lyle McDonald, I think it's considered to be an authoritive guide on the topic. It's ridiculously expensive on Amazon, but I was given a copy of the book as a PDF file by a Doctor friend of mine. Can easily pass it on to you by e-mail.

Best Wishes,
Antony
 
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