Fighting Back with Fat: A Guide to Battling Epilepsy Through the Ketogenic Diet and Modified Atkins Diet

by Erin Whitmer, Jeanne L. Riether

Overview

Written by two mothers who have children on the Ketogenic diet, Fighting Back with Fat provides essential information to educate parents on the diets, as well as gives advice to parents to navigate the emotional minefields that often come with attempting these diets. Common stress factors such as fear of failure, hyperresponsibility, dealing effectively with a child's non-compliance, and educating non-supportive relatives, friends and peers, are all addressed in heart-to-heart frankness from mothers who have covered the territory personally.

The authors include first-person accounts of the successes and trails of other families as well as a rare glimpse of what kids think of the diets, in their own words.

The book closes with the KetoCalculator 101, with tips and advice from the Charlie Foundation's Beth Zupec-Kania, RD, CD, the Keto Calculator's creator and a recipe section offering simple, delicious recipes organized by age group, each with "Keto Bites," fun food facts or practical advice that correspond to each recipe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936303458
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/13/2012
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	723,863
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Erin Whitmer has an MFA in creative writing and has contributed to National Geographic Kids magazine. She lives outside of Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and two sons. Her son, Noah, was on the Ketogenic diet for two years and is now medication free, diet free, and seizure free

Jeanne L. Riether co-founded and directs the Healing Young Hearts Project (healingyounghearts.org) to help young children build resilience in this challenging world. With little support, she started her teenage son, Jordan, on the Modified Atkins Diet. He is now seizure and medication free.

Table of Contents

"Foreword by Eric H. Kossoff, MD
; 1. Enlisting
; 2. Boot Camp, i.e., Retraining Your Brain
; 3. Calling all Comrades
; 4. The Mess Hall
; 5. In the Trenches
; 6. On the Move
; 7. Warriors at School
; 8. Marching Across the Globe
; 9. Warriors of All Shapes and Sizes
; 10. When You Want to Go AWOL
; Recipes;

Editorial Reviews

"Beyond being an invaluable resource for understanding and implementing diet therapies for epilepsy, "Fighting Back with Fat" helps you recognize that you're part of a community--a large, and caring, and supportive community. I literally got a lump in my throat remembering back to the mid-'90s when Charlie was on the Ketogenic diet and imagining how much clearer things would have been, and less isolated we would have felt, if my family had this information and support." --Jim Abrahams, Charlie's Dad, Director, The Charlie Foundation to Help Cure Pediatric Epilepsy
""Fighting Back with Fat" should be required reading for everyone involved with the Ketogenic or Modified Atkins Diet. Whether you are a family who is considering the diet, are currently on the diet, or even neurologists administering the diet, this is everything you need to know about what it is really like, from parents who have been there. This labor of love is truly outstanding!" --Gerry Harris, The Carson Harris Foundation
"Through this book, keto moms Erin Whitmer and Jeanne Riether become keto coaches who are leveling the battleground for those who fight for seizure-freedom. You will be encouraged and empowered with information, testimonials, and yes, even recipes. "Fighting Back with Fat" invites you to put on the boxing gloves in the kitchen to win the battle over seizures." --Paulette George, Author of "Good Morning, Beautiful: Winning the Battle Over Seizures"
"Every keto diet team should read this and see the diet from a caregiver's eyes. Terrific insight into what families face when they embark on this journey. Every team all over the world, and every keto family, should read this very carefully." --Dr. Janak Nathan, Epilepsy and Keto Medical Research Trust, Mumbai, India
""Fighting Back with Fat" is honest, compelling, and all-encompassing. It is exceptionally written by some of the best experts in dietary therapy for epilepsy, the 'keto parents' themselves, wh

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