OT: Low Carb epilepsy diet

[Guest guest]

Turns out there's a new study supporting a low carb

Atkins style epilepsy diet for reducing seizures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/health/research/06epil.html?

_r=1 & ref=health & oref=slogin

A formerly controversial high-fat diet has proved highly effective in reducing

seizures in

children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication, British researchers are

reporting.

As the first randomized trial of the diet, the new study lends legitimacy to a

treatment

that has been used since the 1920s but has until recently been dismissed by many

doctors as a marginal alternative therapy.

" This is the first time that we've really got Class 1 evidence that this diet

works for

treatment of epilepsy, " said Dr. J. Helen Cross, professor of pediatric

neurology at

University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital. She is a principal

investigator

on the study, which will appear in the June issue of The Lancet Neurology.

....

I wonder what would happen if they got rid of the lactose altogether.

Mara

[Guest guest]

Cool! And this provides reason for hope that SCD will one day be third-party studied and finally get the recognition it deserves, too!BadenSCD Day 9Child 3 yrs; SCD 4 mos

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