The ketogenic diet - a treatment for epilepsy (3rd edition, 2000)

by John M. Freeman, MD, Jennifer B. Freeman, Millicent T. Kelly, RD, LD.

Available at your local epilepsy organisation's library, or you can purchase it from www.amazon.com .

Video tapes:

• An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet - A treatment for pediatric epilepsy (for the entire family.

• The Ketogenic Diet:  A Treatment for Pediatric Epilepsy:  A Kid's View.

• The Ketogenic Diet:  A Treatment for Pediatric Epilepsy:  Doctor's Version.

• A Primer in Calculating and Administering the Ketogenic Diet:  A Dietitian and Nurse's Point of View.

For copies of the above videos, contact:
The Charlie Foundation to Help Cure Pediatric Epilepsy
501 10th Street
Santa Monica, CA  90402

First Do No Harm

A major motion film which tells a true story of one family's struggle with epilepsy and how the diet was the miracle in which they had searched.  The film stars Meryl Streep and Fred Ward and is produced by Jim Abrahams (whose child was on the Ketogenic diet and is now off the diet with no more seizures). Most of the young actors in this film had suffered from intractable seizures and been freed from seizures with the ketogenic diet.  Your video rental store may carry the movie.  If not, try your local epilepsy foundation's library or you can order it from www.amazon.com.

The ketogenic diet support group - a webring forum

A wealth of experience and knowledge is to be found with this support group for parents, family members, and caregivers who are using the ketogenic diet as a means of control for epilepsy or seizure disorders.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ketogenic/ ¨

Research

Laux LC, Devonshire KA, Kelley KR, et al. Efficacy of the ketogenic diet in myoclonic epilepsy of doose. Program and abstracts of the American Epilepsy Society 58th Annual Meeting; December 3-7, 2004; New Orleans, Louisiana. Abstract 2.179.

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