Wed, May-30-12, 06:19
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Senior Member
Posts: 6,498
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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The ketogenic diet for epilepsy is not the typical low-carb diet most of us eat here. It's overly complicated, precisely measured, and generally difficult to maintain. Also it's prescribed by a doctor and monitored by a dietician. The idea behind the ketogenic diet for epilepsy is to cause a state of starvation where brain cells use ketones instead of glucose for fuel. That's what they say anyway. As we know here, inducing ketosis is as easy as cutting out carbs and increasing fat. Also, the depth of ketosis of the ketogenic diet for epilepsy and a typical low-carb diet is just about the same. No need for all the hoohaa, doctors or precise measurements. Though an instruction book - like DANDR for example - certainly helps.
http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/tr..._ketogenic_diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_carb_diet
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Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control or for the treatment of obesity. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates (e.g. bread, pasta) are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats (e.g. meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, eggs, cheese, nuts, seeds and peanuts) and other foods low in carbohydrates (e.g. most salad vegetables), although other vegetables and fruits (especially berries) are often allowed. The amount of carbohydrate allowed varies with different low-carbohydrate diets.
Such diets are sometimes ketogenic (i.e. they restrict carbohydrate intake sufficiently to cause ketosis). The Induction phase of the Atkins diet.[1][2][3] is ketogenic.
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I will go as far to say that if a low-carb diet does not induce ketosis to some degree, it's not low-carb enough.
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