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Bill Pomerantz
The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Epilepsy, Third Edition
By Dr. John M. Freeman, Jennifer B. Freeman and Millicent T. Kelly
One in five children with epilepsy has seizures that are resistant to medications. Even when seizures are fairly-well under control, medication may affect children's alertness and mental clarity, impairing their ability to learn and reach their full potential. Many parents are looking beyond currently-available medications for a satisfying solution to seizure treatment. The ketogenic diet could be such an answer. This rigid, mathematically-calculated, doctor-supervised diet is high in fat and low in carbohydrate and protein, and strictly limits both calories and liquid intake. The diet helps to control seizures and allow some children to become both seizure-free and drug-free.
"The Ketogenic Diet" is the only book devoted exclusively to this treatment, proven to improve seizure control in nearly three-quarters of the children who try it. It has all the facts about the ketogenic diet, numerous quotes from parents showing what the experience is really like and 35 clear, tested sample recipes. Every doctor and dietician who treats children with epilepsy and every parent of a child with epilepsy should read this book. This completely-revised-and-updated third edition includes: - New data from clinical studies and laboratory research that has expanded our knowledge about many aspects of the ketogenic diet
- A clearer understanding of the best approaches to helping children and their families cope with the limitations and restrictions of the diet based on experience with hundreds of new patients
- New and improved menus, including some developed by professional chefs whose children were on the diet
- Revised instructions for calculating and managing the diet on a day-to-day basis that reflect the needs of modern dieticians
Icy Sparks
By Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up, and it's especially hard for ten-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan who lives with her grandparents. Life becomes even more difficult for Icy when violent tics and uncontrollable cursing begin—symptoms brought on by a troubling affliction that goes undiagnosed until her adulthood. Icy's adolescence is marred by the humiliation of her illness, and its all-too-visible signs are the source of endless mystery and hilarity as everyone around her offers an opinion about what's troubling the girl. Eventually, Icy finds solace in the company of Miss Emily, an obese woman who knows what it's like to be an outcast in this tightly-knit community. Narrated by a now-grown Icy, this novel shimmers with warmth and humour as it recounts a young girl's painful and poignant journey to womanhood—and the many lives she touches and enriches along the way.
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