They feed a 90 percent hydrogenated oil diet to epileptic children

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There was a thread where someone posted a study where children with epilepsy or who suffered from seizures fared horribly, including some deaths, on a ketogenic diet. I can't seem to find it, but anyways..
I was on the Pritikin site reading about how a study on a ketogenic diet for epileptic children showed that a ketogenic diet worsened blood cholesterol numbers... increased triglycerides and ldl (and not the nice, big fluffy stuff, either) and decreased hdl. They had a link to the actual study and I followed it.

ketogenic diet study (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/290/7/912#TABLEJOC30609T1)

So I got to digging around different epilepsy/ketogenic diet studies, and I learned a new word: KETOCAL. Ketocal is a formula, with ninety percent calories from fat, the rest protein and carb. I found an ad for Ketocal that seemed to be current, that had a list of ingredients.
The first ingredient on the list is hydrogenated soybean oil. The fourth is modified soybean oil. The effects on blood cholesterol of the ketogenic diet in the study are exactly what you would expect if you've spent any time at all looking at the effects of hydrogenated oils on blood cholesterol. And they're still running ads for this crap. :mad:

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Here's a list of ingredients:

Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Dry Whole Milk, Refined Soybean Oil, Soy Lecithin, Corn Syrup Solids, Tripotassium Citrate, Tricalcium Citrate, Potassium Chloride, Tricalcium Phosphate, Choline Bitartrate, Magnesium Hydrogen Phosphate, Calcium Phosphate, Magenesium Acetate, Trisodium Citrate, M-Inositol, L-Isoleucine, L-Tryptophan, Artificial Flavor (Ethyl Vanillin), L-Ascorbic Acid, Ferrous Sulfate, Artificial Sweetener (Aspartame), L-Carnitine, Taurine, Zinc Sulfate, DL-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate, Nicotinamide, Magnesium Sulfate, Calcium-D-Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Artificial Color (Beta Carotene), Thiamin Hydrochloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Vitamin A Acetate, Folic Acid, Chromium Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Hydrogen Selenite, Phylloquinone, D-Biotin, Vitamin D3, Cyanocobalamin

[francisstp]

This is absolutely awful! :(

[deirdra]

The original high fat diet for epileptics involved drinking heavy cream by the cup and eating butter, cream cheese, nuts & saturated animal fats. It looks like someone tried to make it "heart healthy" (insert sarcastic remark here) by using soybean oil and lower the fat content by providing "energy" in the form of HFCS. What a travesty!