The Keto Cookbook: Innovative Delicious Meals for Staying on the Ketogenic Diet - Softcover

Dawn Martenz; Laura Cramp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193630323X ISBN 13: 9781936303236

Publisher: Demos Health, 2012

Synopsis

The ketogenic diet, which is very high in fats and low in carbohydrates, was first developed almost 80 years ago. It makes the body burn fat for energy instead of glucose. When carefully monitored by a medical team familiar with its use, the diet helps two out of three children who are tried on it and may prevent seizures completely in one out of three. It is a strict diet, and takes a strong commitment from the whole family. The ketogenic diet is not a do-it-yourself diet. It is a serious form of treatment that, like other therapies for Epilepsy, has some side effects that have to be watched for.

The Keto Cookbook is a cookbook for those using the diet to treat Epilepsy and other neurologic conditions. The book contains 96 recipes grouped by breakfast and brunch, appetisers and snacks, lunch, dinner, and sweets and treats. The book includes a 16-page colour insert illustrating each recipe. Since many children start the keto diet before they speak, the pictures of the meal and snack options allow children to choose what they want, helping overcome food refusal due to lack of variety of foods and/or child's loss of control over food options. This book provides parents and children with options that have been tested and are kid and Registered Dietitian approved.

Features of The Keto Cookbook include:

• 96 kid and Dietitian tested and approved recipes for the keto diet presented in full colour
• Recipes are coded by symbol to indicate personality type and cooking times
• Allergy information for the eight most common allergens
• Practical suggestions to help people ""keto-proof"" their life, from the kitchen, to the car, to the classroom
• Four sample shopping lists and holiday guidelines will help families prepare for the unexpected
• Sample forms for the Transportation Safety Agency, School/Daycare Centre, and Emergency Room/Primary Physician

About this title

About the Author

Dawn Marie Martenz is the mother of a child on the Ketogenic diet. She ended up at the Children's National Medical Center in DC after she went through tireless trials of different combinations of Anti-Epileptic Drugs. Her child lives with Dravet's, a severe myoclonic epilepsy found in infancy. Her child is now seizure-free. Laura Cramp, RD, LD, CNSC works at the Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC. She manages the dietician staff, performs daily patient assessments, evaluates the menu and educates the medical and food service staff on pediatric nutrition and the Ketogenic Diet. She is in charge of outpatient use of the Ketogenic diet.

Edition details

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193630323X
• ISBN 13: 9781936303236
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144