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Keto diet
@Bon courage removed this a while ago:
[1] Most epilepsy specialists order these children to eat 80% of the diet from fat by weight (90% of calories), plus carbohydrate-free vitamins and minerals to prevent vitamin deficiency.[2] Although this extreme diet plan can be life-saving compared to the alternative, it is not a harmless diet.[3] Children on this diet are at risk of broken bones, stunted growth, kidney stones, high cholesterol, and micronutrient deficiency.[3][4] It is not known how long a child can maintain this diet without incurring permanent damage to growth and development.[4]
What I valued about this was that it:
- emphasizes that "keto" is not an inherently healthful, harmless diet that anyone can try, or that's safe to follow for years without medical supervision, and
- it provides a comparison between diet that the bodybuilders/social media influencers are talking about and the one done by the kids with epilepsy.
References
- ^ Martin-McGill KJ, Bresnahan R, Levy RG, Cooper PN (June 2020). "Ketogenic diets for drug-resistant epilepsy". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020 (6): CD001903. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001903.pub5. PMC 7387249. PMID 32588435.
- ^ MD, Eric H. Kossoff; LDN, Zahava Turner, RD, CSP; MD, Mackenzie C. Cervenka; LDN, Bobbie J. Barron, RD (28 December 2020). Ketogenic Diet Therapies for Epilepsy and Other Conditions, Seventh Edition. Springer Publishing Company. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-8261-4959-6.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Jaminet, Paul; Jaminet, Shou-Ching (11 December 2012). Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat. Simon and Schuster. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-4516-9916-6.
- ^ a b Swaiman, Kenneth F.; Ashwal, Stephen; Ferriero, Donna M.; Schor, Nina F.; Finkel, Richard S.; Gropman, Andrea L.; Pearl, Phillip L.; Shevell, Michael (21 September 2017). Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book: Principles and Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-323-37481-1.
WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- Don't feel super-strongly about this; just was wary about overlapping too much with the main article. Bon courage (talk) 06:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that "the main article" is the right way to think about it. This is "the main article" for voluntary dietary restrictions; that is "the main article" for medically necessary severe dietary restrictions.
- I think I'll put back all but the last sentence, and we can see how that feels for a few days. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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