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How to Maintain and Support a Ketogenic Diet Program

A Nursing Perspective

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Epilepsy and the Ketogenic Diet

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This chapter describes the experience of one center (Epilepsy and Brain Mapping Program, Pasadena, CA) in starting and maintaining a ketogenic diet (KD) program. We hope that our experience will be useful to other centers contemplating starting a KD program.

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Sutherling, J.E.N., Mele-Hayes, D. (2004). How to Maintain and Support a Ketogenic Diet Program. In: Stafstrom, C.E., Rho, J.M. (eds) Epilepsy and the Ketogenic Diet. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-808-3_5

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