Keto Kid: Helping Your Child Succeed on the Ketogenic Diet

by Deborah Ann Snyder, Dr.Deborah Snyder, Deborah Dr.Snyder

Overview

For more than half of all children with epilepsy, the only reliable way to control seizures is the ketogenic diet, a rigid, mathematically calculated, doctor-supervised regimen that is high in fat and low in carbohydrate and protein, and strictly limits both calories and liquid intake.

In Keto Kid: Helping Your Child Succeed on the Ketogenic Diet, Deborah Snyder, a family physician and mother of a four-year-old, keto kid, provides compassionate advice for parents transitioning to a lifestyle where one extra bite of food can have serious repercussions on a child's health.

This unique book gives readers all the facts about the day-to-day management of the diet, while communicating the emotional struggle encountered by children when they mourn the loss of their favorite foods, and must learn rigid self-denial at a very young age.

Topics covered include:

• Recipes for keto-friendly meals, and tips for making this limited diet more interesting
• Managing deeply food-oriented occasions like holidays and parties
• Time-saving strategies, such as pre-weighing and freezing meals
• Dealing with the emotional loss of a child's favorite foods
• A day-by-day account of life on the ketogenic diet, in diary form
• And much more!

Snyder is calm, direct, and above all, hopeful. Keto Kid is a practical guide that will enable families to successfully master the ketogenic diet, while making the experience as pleasant as possible for both child and parent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934559628
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/03/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	728 KB

About the Author

Deborah Ann Snyder, DO, graduated from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a family physician in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. At the age of four, her son Bryce began having uncontrollable seizures for which he was prescribed the ketogenic diet. After the diet's two-year course, her son Bryce is seizure-free.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Weathering the Holidays
Coping with the Ketogenic Diet
Ketogenic Cooking
Ketogenic Recipes
The Day to Day Realities of the Ketogenic Diet
Photographs of Meals
Appendices

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: John Willis, MD (Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
Description: This is a personal book written by a doctor about administering the ketogenic diet to her son. It is essentially a book of recipes plus many helpful and, no doubt, hard-won insights into making the diet tolerable and workable.
Purpose: The author proposes to help children succeed on the ketogenic diet, a worthy objective that is ably accomplished.
Audience: This book is for parents, but practitioners and dieticians may find many helpful tips.
Features: This is a practical guide to using this diet to feed a child with seizures — menus, strategies, special holidays, and psychological tips. Parents should find all of this helpful. The recipes alone are golden.
Assessment: This is a very useful book. I will recommend it to every parent who may use the diet for a child with difficult to control epilepsy.

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