Guest guest Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 , That is something I didn't know. If there's a chance of anything happening - it always happens with Rohan! Are you worried about 's slow growth? BTW Rohan is still on the KGD at 1.5:1, I'm trying to change over to the SCD these hols. Saro Gill wrote: >Saro, >I've been told it's the acidity than causes lack of growth. It doesn't seem >to happen with every kid. Jane Praeger's son Leo has grown well on the diet >while didn't grow at all (dropped from the 75th percentile to the 25th >percentile in a year). I asked Jane for Leo's calories/protein and his >weight to see if maybe I had 's protein or calories too low. was >actually getting more calories and roughly the same amount of protein per >pound. So go figure. I always wondered if lower ketones would help with >growth. Isn't Rohan on the SCDiet? >ashley > >---------- > >To: ketogenic >Subject: Re: carnitine/growth - >Date: Fri, Jul 1118, 1220032002, 110:32 AM > > >A similar experience to add to this. Rohan hardly grew >at all for 2 1/2 years on the diet. Luckily he was the >tallest in his class before. In the last few months we have >increased calories and he started to show a little increase >in height and is still average according to his dr. But boys >in his class seem to be much taller. We are thinking of >increasing the calories still more as we don't want him >to miss this period when they grow the most. Anyway >as we don't have much control on the diet it wouldn't >matter much if we increased cals. >Saro > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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