Some try ultra-fat diet to combat medical conditions

[Viking Dan]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-05-14-diet-treatment_x.htm

[Gabriel Guzman]

A nice mix of what somebody thinks a true ketogenic diet is for (it's been used succesfully tot treat Epilepsy, and to assume that would work for Parkinsons' Disease is a stretch), what somebody thinks is Atkins (which is not a true ketogenic diet), and what somebody thinks knows about what the other two are talking about... Bottom line: nonesense.

Even though there are groups of humans that subsist on a diet that provdies quite a bit of fat, their protein intake is not negligible so to assume that a high fat diet must be deprived from protein is a big flaw in somebody's body of knowledge about nutrition.

Richard Veech has been in the field for many years now and he should know better than to make statements like these when the evidence points elsewhere:

Consequences of high fat intake, heart problems for one, could offset the diet's hypothetical benefits in some people...

That is, of course, if he was quoted accurately...

[Viking Dan]

Well, 90% fat, 8% protein. It may have been adequate protein depending on the calories...which they don't give. :(

If I read this right, the woman lost 23 lbs. in a month.

[Gabriel Guzman]

It's the comment from Veech about the high fat intake what I was trying to address. As far of the amount of weight lost in XX days, I normally don't pay too much attention to that as weight loss rate varies from people to people. Who knows if it will work for Parkinson's disease in the same way that the true ketogenic diet has worked for Epilepsy and even if it works, there will always be some expert advising against it becuse of the old reasons we all know.

[Viking Dan]

I'm curious because Jan Kwasniewski (inventor of the Optimal Diet (http://homodiet.netfirms.com/)) claims to routinely cure all sorts of diseases like this with a very high diet(2.5-2.5 g fat/g protein.) It'd be intriguing if that's true.

Plus losing 20 lbs. in a month would also rock. ;)