I have to respectfully disagree michelle. But certainly you are not the only one to espouse this incorrect point of view.
Rather than point out that there is no literature on ketogenic diets causing damage I will point out the fact that doctors put children on ketogenic diets to control epilepsy for up to years.
And they put them much deeper into ketosis than we would be because they also limit their water. The idea that the seizures are controlled by really high blood ketone levels.
During the time they are on it, they don't even check for liver damage or kideny damage or whatever.
Because it doesn't happen.
And children are more susceptible to damage of that kind than adults.
Here is a couple web sites to sink your teeth into.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ketodi....html#Heading2
http://epilepsyontario.org/faqs/keto.html
Note: You can hurt adults but you can't have procedures that hurt kids. They get shut down.
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Originally posted by XOMichelle
Cream-
Please don't get back on the Atkins diet!!! It's bad for you... here's why:
Your brain ONLY uses glucose (sugar) as fuel. Thus, you need to eat food with glucose in order to fuel your brain (carbs, complex carbs, fruits with simple sugar, milk). If you eat no glucose, your body will make ketone bodies (glucose-like substance) to feed your brain from other protien sources in your liver. Ketone bodies are toxic, and elevated levels in your bloodsteam can be life threatening (ketacidosis is common when diabetics go into insulin shocks).
Now, most peoiple on the Atkins diet don't reach life threatening ketosis because of "hidden carbohydrates" in their food (and the acid-base buffer in our blood). However, carbohydrates are essential to your cells and metabolism and not eating them throws your body into an abnormal metabolic state.
So eat carbs! You cells need them.
The rest of Jame's advice is sound. :-)
-M
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