BACKGROUND AND AIMS The ketogenic diet is an effective medical therapy for intractable childhood epilepsy. However, it has drawbacks in that it restricts calories, fluids and protein. The Atkins diet may also induce ketosis without those restrictions. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of a modified Atkins diet in children with intractable childhood epilepsy. METHODS This clinical tri...

Ketogenic diet has been used for more than 80 years as a successful dietary regimen for epilepsy. Recently, dietary modulation by carbohydrate depletion via ketogenic diet has been suggested as an important therapeutic strategy to selectively kill cancer cells and as adjuvant therapy for cancer treatment. However, some researchers insist ketogenic diet to be highly undesirable as ketogenic diet...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Dietary therapies for seizure management date back further than pharmacologic interventions, but many neurologists are not familiar with these treatment options. This introduction to dietary therapies will discuss administration of ketogenic diets, comparisons between diet types, evidence-based efficacy of diet therapies in epilepsy treatment, and management of side effects. T...

Diabetes mellitus is a global disease, prevails all over the world, though the prevalence rate differs from country to country. Diabetes, a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, is characterized by high blood glucose level and glycosuria resulting from dysfunction of pancreatic beta cells and insulin resistance. In advance stages of diabetes, metabolism of protein and lipid is also altered. Many...

OBJECTIVE To investigate compliance with a viscosity-modified diet among Korean dysphagic patients and to determine which factors are associated with compliance. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed medical records of patients who had been recommended to use thickeners in the previous videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS). Among 68 patients, 6 were excluded because tube feeding was require...

Six dogs with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) received a commercially available hypoallergenic diet containing an enzymatically hydrolyzed defatted soy globulin as the only protein source. Five of the six dogs had been refractory to a variety of controlled diets, and four dogs had failed to respond to previous medical therapy. All dogs were fed the test diet twice daily for 10 weeks. Dogs not ...

background: this study aimed to assess several biochemical and oxidative stress parameters before and after radioiodine therapy in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer who consumed a low iodine diet and withdrawal of levothyroxine after total thyroidectomy. methods: we enrolled 40 candidates for radioiodine therapy. blood sampling was performed prior to as well as 72 h after consump...

141 M ost practicing child neurologists possess a basic understanding of the ketogenic diet, which is a high-fat, low-protein, low-carbohydrate diet for treating children with epilepsy who do not respond to or cannot tolerate drugs. This diet mimics the biochemical changes associated with starvation and induces, among other changes, production of ketone bodies (mainly beta-hydroxybutyrate, and ...

background: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a major public health problem worldwide. smoking is the number one cause of copd; however, genetic, environmental and dietary factors contribute to the etiology of this disease. in this study, we assessed the association between three diet quality indices -the healthy eating index-2005 (hei-2005), the healthy eating index-2010 (hei-201...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the neonatal and obstetric outcomes of pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Screening and treatment - diet-only versus additional insulin therapy - were based on the 2010 national Dutch guidelines. METHODS Retrospective study of the electronic medical files of 820 singleton GDM pregnancies treated between January 2011 and September 2014 in a u...