Great
Ormond Street Hospital
Treat
Children's Epilepsy With Diet
If
you're a soccer fan you'll likely have missed ITV's Trevor McDonald programme
about epileptic children being treated with diet for their problem. It
was shown on 21st June 2004 whilst England were playing football in Euro
2004.
The diet is high in fat, low in carbohydrate and protein. Though this may sound similar to the Atkins Diet, Great Ormond Street Hospital insist it would be highly irresponsible to regard it in that light.
Their epilepsy diet - which is highly successful for some children - has to be precise and carefully monitored. Not to be attempted without guidance from a qualified medical professional who is thoroughly familiar with the diet.
What's most significant is that the diet was first formulated in the 1920s. Then along came 'miracle' drugs. The diet was dropped in favour of anti-convulsive drugs! So it's taken all of 60 years to give it a re-run. How the medical profession have been blinded by drugs! But fortunately some are starting to remove the blinkers fitted in medical school, to see a whole bright new world out there. A world where health doesn't have to depend on drugs that kill and maim so many each year with their deadly side effects .
Some of the children on the diet have had their lives turned around. Fewer seizures - one little girl previously had as many as 80 seizures in a day - now has hardly any. She and others have become much brighter and quicker to learn too.
One mother said that her daughter had become zombie-like with the onset of epilepsy. Whether that was due to epilepsy or the anti-convulsive drugs wasn't clear. But her emotion was! She couldn't hold back the tears when she told how her daughter had been. And the joy she now felt at the fantastic change in her little girl.
You can get details at the Great Ormond Street Hospital website: www.gosh.nhs.uk.
Non-epileptic children don't need the G.O.S.H. diet to become brighter and more intelligent. They simply need good easily absorbable nutritional supplements, including the essential Omega 3 - 6 - 9 fish oils. Like Good Health Naturally's Jurassic Juice and Eskimo Oil.
Jurassic Juice provides over 90 nutrients that kids need every day - that they're highly unlikely to get from their food. (At only 20p a day). Best of all it tastes great!
Eskimo Oil tastes good too - a 'tutti frutti' flavour. It gives all the Omega oils in the right balance (important) to bring out the best in your kids. And costs even less than Jurassic Juice.
You're unlikely to find a finer balanced, toxin free, better tasting fish oil supplement than Eskimo Oil from Good Health Naturally. And unlike others it's guaranteed low in harmful pollutants like mercury. Why not check it out now? You could experience a similar joy to that mother above when your youngsters show a great improvement in their school work!
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