Samman Association

Do you know?
The classic ketogenic diet contains a 4:1 ratio of fat to combined protein and carbohydrate. This diet excludes high-carbohydrate foods such as starchy fruits and vegetables, bread, pasta, grains and sugar while increasing the consumption of foods high in fats such as nuts, cream, and butter. The ketogenic diet reduces seizure frequency by more than 50% in half of the patients who try it and by more than 90% in a third of patients. Children with refractory epilepsy are more likely to benefit from the ketogenic diet than from trying another anticonvulsant drug. It is not a benign, holistic or natural treatment for EPILEPSY!!!!

As, with any serious medication, therapy, there maybe complications. Common but easily treatable side effects include constipation, low- grade acidosis and hypoglycemia.

Possible therapeutic uses for the ketogenic diet have being studied for various neurological disorders in addition to epilepsy: Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), autism, brain cancer, headache, neurotrauma, pain, Parkinson’s disease (PD) and sleep disorders.