Keto Kid: Helping Your Child Succeed on the Ketogenic Diet »

For more than half of all children with epilepsy, the only reliable way to control seizures is through the ketogenic diet, a rigid regimen that strictly limits both calories and liquid intake. Keto Kid details the daily management of the diet — where one extra bite of food can have serious repercussions on a child’s health — while also addressing the emotional struggle children encounter with the loss of their favorite foods and the necessity of learning rigorous self-denial at a very young age. The book also provides recipes for keto-friendly meals and tips for making this limited diet more interesting; time-saving strategies such as pre-weighing and freezing meals; and a day-by-day account of life on the ketogenic diet; and more. Calm, direct, and above all, hopeful, Snyder helps families successfully adopt the diet while making the experience as pleasant as possible for both child and parent.

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Reviewer:John Willis, MD(Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
Description:This is a personal book written by a doctor about administering the ketogenic diet to her son. It is essentially a book of recipes plus many helpful and, no doubt, hard-won insights into making the diet tolerable and workable.
Purpose:The author proposes to help children succeed on the ketogenic diet, a worthy objective that is ably accomplished.
Audience:This book is for parents, but practitioners and dieticians may find many helpful tips.
Features:This is a practical guide to using this diet to feed a child with seizures -- menus, strategies, special holidays, and psychological tips. Parents should find all of this helpful. The recipes alone are golden.
Assessment:This is a very useful book. I will recommend it to every parent who may use the diet for a child with difficult to control epilepsy.