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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Diarmid Logan wrote
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-adm120203.php Contact: Jessica Collins 410-516-4570 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy Why not in adults? I'd rather be on Atkins than doped out of mind on Teggies and Frisium OD. -- Malcolm |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Damn...talk about reinventing the wheel! You'd think these folks would find
better things to spend research dollars on. They could start by doing a literature study.... Diarmid Logan wrote: :: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-adm120203.php :: :: Contact: Jessica Collins :: :: 410-516-4570 :: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions :: :: Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy :: :: Along with helping some people shed unwanted pounds, the popular :: low-carbohydrate, high-fat Atkins diet may also have a role in :: preventing seizures in children with epilepsy, say researchers at the :: Johns Hopkins Children's Center. |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Diarmid Logan wrote:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-adm120203.php Contact: Jessica Collins 410-516-4570 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy Talk about wasting money on research.... A Lo Carb diet was considered standard for Epilepsy patients before the drugs now commonly used were available. BJ |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Actually, the ketogenic diet used for epilepsy in small children was much
more extreme than the Atkins diet and required restriction of fluids and almost no carbs at all for many months. It was never "standard" though used as a solution of last resort for children with epilesy for whom drug therapy did not work. So this is something new . . . -- Jenny Cut the carbs to respond to my new email address! New photo: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/jennypics.htm Weight: 168.5/137 Diabetes Type II diagnosed 8/1998 - HBa1c 5.2 10/03 Low Carb 9/1998 - 8/2001 and 11/10/02 - Now http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean How to calculate your need for protein * How much people really lose each month * Water Weight Gain & Loss * The "Two Gram Cure" for Hunger Cravings * Characteristics of Successful Dieters * Indispensible Low Carb Treats * Should You Count that Low Impact Carb? * Curing Ketobreath * Exercise Starting from Zero * Do Starch Blockers Work? * NEW! Why the Low Carb Diet is Great for Diabetes * NEW! Low Carb Strategies for People with Diabetes "BJ in Texas" wrote in message . .. Diarmid Logan wrote: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-adm120203.php Contact: Jessica Collins 410-516-4570 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy Talk about wasting money on research.... A Lo Carb diet was considered standard for Epilepsy patients before the drugs now commonly used were available. BJ |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
After being on Atkins for 3 months, I had seizures around the first week in
November. My right shoulder is broken and I am now on anti-seizure meds. There was no clinical reason for the seizures and the only finding for cause may have been dehydration. FTR, I always drink plenty of water but apparently upon just waking up after a nights sleep and not having food in my system for many hours, my system just quit on me. I am diabetic and found my sugar was much lower, maybe too low with the meds I was taking which have also been adjusted. I am not low carbing now but also have not gone "hog wild" and use about 100-150 grams carb per day. Feeling good and maintaining my 58 pound weight loss Nancy J "Diarmid Logan" Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy Along with helping some people shed unwanted pounds, the popular low-carbohydrate, high-fat Atkins diet may also have a role in preventing seizures in children with epilepsy, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. In a limited study of six patients, including three patients 12 years old and younger on the Atkins regimen for at least four months, two children and one young adult were seizure-free and were able to reduce use of anti-convulsant medications. Findings of the study, scheduled for presentation today at the American Epilepsy Society Meeting in Boston, also showed that seizure control could be long-lasting on the diet, with the three patients continuing to be seizure-free for as long as 20 months. The researchers caution that because of the small number of study subjects, their look at the relationship between the Atkins diet and seizure control should not lead to its routine use in children with epilepsy, nor at this point should the Atkins diet be used to replace the ketogenic diet the rigorous high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet already proven to reduce or eliminate difficult-to-control seizures in some patients. The common elements in both diets are high fat and low carbohydrate foods that alter the body's glucose chemistry. The ketogenic diet mimics some of the effects of starvation, in which the body first uses up glucose and glycogen before burning stored body fat. In the absence of glucose, the body produces ketones, a chemical byproduct of fat that can inhibit seizures. Children who remain seizure-free for two years on the ketogenic diet often can resume normal eating and often their seizures don't return. The Atkins diet, while slightly less restrictive than the ketogenic diet, also produces ketones. "We just don't know yet how effective the Atkins diet is in reducing seizures or if it comes close to the benefits of the ketogenic diet, but our report raises new questions about the ideal level of calorie and protein restriction imposed by the ketogenic diet," said the study's lead author, Eric Kossoff, M.D., a pediatric neurologist at the Children's Center. "By learning more about how the Atkins diet works to control seizures, we should learn more about which patients may benefit best from either or both of these diets," he added. "It may be, for example, that some of those who can't tolerate the restrictiveness of the ketogenic diet could be helped with Atkins." In the short term, Kossoff says it's possible the Atkins diet could be used in selected patients as a "trial run" for individuals considering the ketogenic diet in the future. "Success on the Atkins diet may be a good indication of patient compliance and efficacy of the ketogenic diet," he adds. "Because the Atkins diet is easy to read and versions of it are available in paperback at bookstores, families can easily follow this kind of a strict, low-carbohydrate diet on their own for several weeks to determine if this is something they can adhere to." Also, because the Atkins diet was originally designed for weight loss, Kossoff says it is possible patients following the diet to reduce seizures may lose weight in the process. If that does occur, and a patient's weight has reached unhealthy levels, the patient should be instructed to increase calorie intake by eating more fats and proteins. In the Hopkins study, patients began with 10 grams of carbohydrates per day, more than the typical amount provided on the ketogenic diet, but fewer than used in the induction phase of the Atkins diet (20 grams/day). Carbohydrate intake was gradually increased for some patients. Five out of the six patients attained ketosis (the state of producing ketones) within days of starting the Atkins diet and maintained moderate to large levels of ketosis for periods of six weeks to 24 months. Kossoff says that Hopkins researchers will further examine the role the Atkins diet plays in the management of epilepsy in a larger clinical study of 20 children with epilepsy, which began in September 2003 and already has enrolled several patients. Co-authors of the current study were Gregory L. Krauss, Jane R. McGrogan, and John M. Freeman of the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. ### On the Web: http://mcb.asm.org/ Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions' news releases are available on an EMBARGOED basis on EurekAlert at http://www.eurekalert.org and from the Office of Communications and Public Affairs' direct e-mail news release service. To enroll, call 410-955-4288 or send e-mail to . On a POST-EMBARGOED basis find them at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Roger Zoul wrote:
Damn...talk about reinventing the wheel! You'd think these folks would find better things to spend research dollars on. They could start by doing a literature study.... And I have been hearing this for years, no decades. Of course, they didn't call it the Atkins Diet but rather a low-fat diet. -- Jean B. |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Yeah, but ketogenic diets for kids with epilepsy has generally been
considered on the "fringe" (kinda like low carb diets for weight lossG). Now that low carb is getting mainstream recognition, it's probably a good time for JHH to get this information back out to the public as well as the medical community in hopes that people will look at it with less skepticism. At least if they have a new study out there, it will turn up in new literature searches. Lee - an RN who actually learned about ketogenic diets in school! PS - if anyone hasn't seen it and can find a copy, watch the movie "First Do No Harm". http://epilepsyontario.org/client/EO/EOWeb.nsf/web/First+Do+No+Harm+(Movie) Roger Zoul wrote: Damn...talk about reinventing the wheel! You'd think these folks would find better things to spend research dollars on. They could start by doing a literature study.... |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
Lee B. wrote:
:: Yeah, but ketogenic diets for kids with epilepsy has generally been :: considered on the "fringe" (kinda like low carb diets for weight :: lossG). Right....now only were they giving bad advice on weight control, they were also making it harder to sick kids to get proper treatment, all because it was too hard to believe that removing carbs could have benefit. So, in addition to not doing further research on LC eating, they failed to do further research on ketogentic diets (which is what Atkins is, BTW) for epileptic kids. :: Now that low carb is getting mainstream recognition, it's :: probably a good time for JHH to get this information back out to the :: public as well as the medical community in hopes that people will :: look :: at it with less skepticism. At least if they have a new study out :: there, :: it will turn up in new literature searches. :: Well, I guess I agree with you. Better late than never. :: Lee - an RN who actually learned about ketogenic diets in school! :: :: PS - if anyone hasn't seen it and can find a copy, watch the movie :: "First Do No Harm". :: http://epilepsyontario.org/client/EO/EOWeb.nsf/web/First+Do+No+Harm+(Movie) :: :: Roger Zoul wrote: ::: ::: Damn...talk about reinventing the wheel! You'd think these folks ::: would find better things to spend research dollars on. They could ::: start by doing a literature study.... |
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Atkins diet may reduce seizures in children with epilepsy
"Nancy Huffines" wrote in message om...
After being on Atkins for 3 months, I had seizures around the first week in November. My right shoulder is broken and I am now on anti-seizure meds. There was no clinical reason for the seizures and the only finding for cause may have been dehydration. FTR, I always drink plenty of water but apparently upon just waking up after a nights sleep and not having food in my system for many hours, my system just quit on me. I am diabetic and found my sugar was much lower, maybe too low with the meds I was taking which have also been adjusted. I am not low carbing now but also have not gone "hog wild" and use about 100-150 grams carb per day. Feeling good and maintaining my 58 pound weight loss Nancy J What exactly were you eating that you thought you were on the Atkins diet? Can you give us an idea of what you were eating on a typical day? Are you suggesting that the Atkins diet brought on these seizures. How did your shoulder get broken? What do you mean your "system just quit on you"? You are diabetic and you chose to go low-carb. You then went with the lowest carb diet without considering less restrictive low-carb diets such as the Zone. Is that correct? I am completely in support of the low-carb way of life. Having said that, if I were diabetic and trying a new and controversial way of eating to lose weight and regain control of by diabetes, I would go slow and methodically research the various low-carb options. I would make less extreme changes to my diet, monitoring the results carefully. I would do it with the supervision and help of a progressive and supportive doctor. And I wouldn't aim to lose 50 or 60 lbs in only three months. Read: Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution by Richard K. Bernstein (Author http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...31267?v=glance You are on the right track, just do it slow and easy. You will get there without having to take extreme measures. Also read The Zone by Barry Sears, his diet is easier to adhere to and less carb restrictive than Atkins. TC |
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