Ketogenic Diets: Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders

SECTION 1: Overview of the Traditional Ketogenic Diet; 1. Epilepsy Today and the Place of the Ketogenic Diet in the World; 2. What is the Ketogenic Diet?; 3. History of the Ketogenic Diet; 4. How Does the Ketogenic Diet Work?; 5. Is my Child a Candidate for the Ketogenic Diet?; 6. The diet for all Cultures, Religions, and Food Preferences; SECTION 2: The ABCs of the Ketogenic Diet; 7. Initiating the Ketogenic Diet: To Fast or To Admit?; 8. Calculating the Ketogenic Diet; 9. KetoCalculator; 10. All Those Crazy Supplements!; SECTION 3: Life on the Ketogenic Diet; 11. The Expert Consensus Statement and You; 12. Fine-tuning the Ketogenic Diet?; 13. Parent Support Groups and the Internet; 14. Side Effects of the Ketogenic Diet; 15. Making it Work at Home and On the Road; 16. Going Off the Ketogenic Diet; SECTION 4: Modified Ketogenic Diets; 17. When and Why Should I Use These "Alternative" Diets?; 18. The Modified Atkins Diet: History and Future Directions; 19. How do I Use the Modified Atkins Diet?; 20. The MCT Diet; 21. The LGIT (Low-Glycemic Index Treatment); SECTION 5: Ketogenic Cooking; 22. Sample Meal Plans for the Ketogenic Diet; 23. Modified Atkins Diet Meal Plans and Recipes; SECTION 6: The Future of Diets and the Brain; 24. Can the diet be Used Before Medications?; 25. Adults and Diets; 26. Diets and other Neurologic Conditions; SECTION 7: Appendices; A. Medications; B. Johns Hopkins Order Entry for Ketogenic Diet Admission; C. Sample letter of Medical Necessity; D. Food Database; E. Atkins Carbohydrate Gram Counter; F. Selected References; G. International Centers.

Eric Kossoff, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and a member of The John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center, as well as the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the Associate Director of the pediatric neurology training program and coauthor of The Ketogenic Diet, Fourth Edition. Dr. Kossoff is the editor of "Keto News" on www.epilepsy.com. He has dedicated his career to investigating and researching the impact of putting young children with epilepsy on a 95 per cent fat diet to control their seizures. John M. Freeman, MD, developed the ketogenic diet while working at Johns Hopkins University. The pediatric epilepsy center at Johns Hopkins was renamed The Johns Hopkins John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center in his honor in 2002. The diet and the center were featured on Dateline in a 1994 edition as a therapy for childhood seizure disorders. "Dateline" reported that miraculous results were obtained in a large percentage of the patients who were placed on the high fat diet. A prolific author, he has written nearly 150 articles, 41 book chapters and seven books or editions of books including, the award winning The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Children and Others with Epilepsy. Zahava Turner, RD, CSP, LDN, is the Ketogenic Dietitian for the John Freeman Epilepsy Center at The Johns Hopkins University responsible for all nutritional aspects for patients following the ketogenic diet, including education, follow up and menu planning. James Rubenstein, MD, is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician on the full-time staff at Kennedy Krieger Institute and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

"While this is a profoundly rigorous diet, with potentially serious side effects, Freeman, Kossoff, et al. discuss every facet of the process with clarity and professionally restrained optimism. Under proper guidance and with real dedication, this diet may be the path to recovery for children with difficult-to-control seizures." (Kirkus Reports) "A 'must'...Very highly recommended as a top alternative to medication for kids with epilepsy." (The Midwest Book Review) "This book is easy to read... Anecdotes from families that have used the ketogenic diet are interspersed throughout the chapters and make the...text more interesting, and bring the diet to life... This book is highly recommended for pediatric consumer health libraries." (CAPHIS Consumer Connections) "If we had had the information in this book fifteen months earlier, a vast majority of Charlie's $100,000 of medical, surgical, and drug treatment would not have been necessary, a vast majority of Charlie's seizures would not have occurred." (From the Foreword by Jim Abrahams, Director, The Charlie Foundation to Help Cure Pediatric Epilepsy)"