Re: Summary of the Diet-Mike

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I may be off on this, but the way I simply explain the diet is this: in biblical

times, a person would fast to rid themselves of seizures. The Ketogenic Diet

mimics fasting. It is a high fat diet, and low glucose. Normally, your body

burns glucose for energy. While on the Ketogenic Diet, the body burns fat for

energy, thus producing ketones in the brain. The ketones naturally control

seizures.

Not sure if that will help, but it seems to make sense to people when I tell

them! I think I got all that info from Freeman's book.

Mom to Noah- age 3, med-free, & seizure-free on the ketogenic diet

is@... wrote:

Does anyone know where I can find a short summary of the diet? Maybe one or

two pages without a lot of the technical information. When Broc was first

diagnosed with Infantile Spasms 2 years ago I found a nice two page summary

in a Word document that explained IS in simple terms and I sent this out to

a lot of friend and family to rather than having to explain to each

individually what Broc has. I still use it and have just printed it out to

take to a new worker at Broc's daycare. I have been looking for something

similar that explains the diet but have been unable to find anything.

Mike Bartenhagen

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