213:(1) "The diet of the Inuit is similar to the Ketogenic diet. Typically Inuit diets contain 15-18% protein with the remainder being fat." First of all it is difficult to talk of an "inuit diet" because it today exists only to a very limited extent - most inuit eat a combination of traditional foods and modern foods. Ideally an article dealing with THE INUIT DIET should be included in wikipedia, mainly because the notion is so widespread in articles about medicine ("alternative medicine" in particular), and there are a lot of myths and faulty ideas surrounding this. As far as I know, based on older antropological experiences such as that of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the inuit diet typically contained about 20% proteins and 80% of energy as fats. This translates in weight ratio into about 1:1,5 between proteins (+carbs) and fats, which is very different from the typical 1:3-4 ratio between carbohydrate+proteins: fats which constitutes the typical "ketogenic diet". Others have suggested the inuit diet contained approx 20-25% proteins, 75% fats and 0-5% carbohydrates (which would constitute a 1:1,3 ratio between proteins+carbs:fats). Furthermore, the body can convert an excess of proteins into carbohydrates (glucose) in a 2:1 ratio (2 gram protein translates to 1 gram glucose). Therefore inuits may enter only light ketosis, or no ketosis at all. Zero-carb diets does not necessarily involve ketosis.
216:(2) "Interestingly, despite the lack of numerous vitamins in this diet, Inuit do not appear to suffer deficiency diseases. In particualr vitamin C deficiency or Scurvy, is referred to as the white mans disease." - Animal foods is usually rich in vitamins. Although low in vitamin C (e.g. 10% of the RDA), the bioavailability is probably much higher, so that scurvy don't appear. If they don't eat bones (e.g. in the form of bone stock/soup, ground or eaten from small fish), the amount of calcium may be very low however. As the RDA/RDI's are based on a high carbohydrate diet which requires a different amount/type of vitamins and minerals, it is difficult to judge such a diet. Magnesium and B-vitamins are required for carbohydrate metabolism, for example.
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a ketogenic diet is simply another word for a low carbohydrate diet. But the diet discussed here is one that relies on inducing a state of ketosis. Because the human body is capable of making about 0,5 gram glucose out of 1 gram of proteins, this means the above ratios may not induce ketosis. The point is therefore that both proteins and carbs should be severely restricted on this diet. This may be dangerous, yes, as is evident by the reported side-effects for children adhering to the diet (discussed in the article). I don't have time to put up references to back my claims right now, but I suppose they can be found in the references/notes for the article.
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the other low carb diets (Atkins is mentioned briefly but the article seems to try to imply that this diet is a completely different thing). Granted "low carb" is a controversial term but not avoiding discussing the relationship seems a significant omission (i.e. Knowledge should be "above the controversy"). Note that
Kossoff at Johns Hopkins (see the Journal of Neurology, 2003) has specifically been investigating the efficacy of Atkins on epileptic patients (as essentially an extension of the ketogenic diet work that JHMI has been doing for decades). I think this info needs to be explicitly brought out in the article. --
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The ketogenic diet discussed in this article is NOT comprised of 60% fats, 35% proteins and 5%, as was claimed in the introduction. The ketogenic diet should not be confused with a low carbohydrate diet or the Atkins diet. There may be some confusion among a few researchers, who seems to believe that
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Thanks for your offer to find more literature. I'm sure that as you read more about the diet, you will realise it is very well accepted by the medical community today. There is good evidence-based-medicine to support it. It certainly isn't a first-choice treatment, nor is it "natural" in any way. The
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It seems that after taking the so-called questionable links et al, there is now no mention of ketogenic diets and cancer, while previously, at least there was an indirect mention of the potential of ketogenic diets to reduce and perhaps even treat cancer... I will not even try to re-post the links,
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You should consider getting an account. You can be more anonymous (if you wish) or use your real name. I've removed your email to avoid spam robots finding it. You are welcome to put it back if you want, or put it on your userpage if you get one. Discussions on article-talk pages and user-talk pages
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I added a "See Also" section with a link to the "Low carb diet" page since that's what this is (although obviously the ketogenic diet invented for epilepsy predates the recent low carb craze by several decades). I'm curious, though, why there is not much attempt in the article to link this diet with
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Thanks for this, I have added it to the article for the moment. I have a concern that I need to research, though. Since fasting is part of the "treatment" for lots of things in the Bible, I am not sure that this really supports the
Ketogenic diet in any meaningful way. If my father recommends red
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Most of the studies are in children and it is generally only used in children. NICE say "The ketogenic diet should not be recommended for adults with epilepsy." This (like much of the ketogenic diet) is, they admit, not based on the strongest evidence. There is current research into its use in
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This isn't WP's best article and does need some serious tidying, which I keep meaning to get round to doing. I've got some literature too, including a book on the subject. I'd be very interested in reading any current literature that claims to show the diet is
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Why no mention of the basic research that may explain how this diet actually works? There are plenty of studies out there... Maybe if I have time I will include some of them with an explanation.
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Seems odd to have epilepsy listed as the only contraindication when half the studies listed directly below concern how ketogenic diets can be beneficial for epileptics...
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