Thu, Jan-27-05, 00:21
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Senior Member
Posts: 193
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 320/275/190
BF:
Progress: 35%
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Well...... in all due respect, when it's YOUR child, you don't want to offer them up as a guinea pig. I hope and pray for you that your children in the future are perfect, strong and healthy and thrive on whatever way you choose to feed them.
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The people who suggest that the human diet should be composed largely of plant material, a.k.a. carbohydrate, had no hesitation what so ever in conducting a global experiment using the entire planet’s human population as “guinea pigs”. There were no studies, no experiments, nothing but the blind acceptance of horrifically flawed logic, applied to a so-called study that can easily be shown to be worthless, the infamous “Seven Countries Study” by the late Ancel Keys.
The fundamental rule for medical doctors practicing in the US is known as “Standard of Care”. Adherence to this standard provides the MD with virtual immunity from any legal liability for any “unfortunate” outcomes that may occur. As applied to the Ketogenic diet for epilepsy, this means it may only be used ethically as the treatment of last resort, after ALL “conventional”, (read as PAHRMACOLOGICAL), remedies have been given a “fair” chance to fail. I, personally, believe that this principal is the primary reason that the Ketogenic diet is not the treatment of choice. If pharmacological intervention was permitted only after the diet failed the market for these drugs would not be large enough to measure. Further, the diet is made unnecessarily complex simply to protect the current dietary religion of the professional dietitian.
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