Ketogenic diet may be suitable for children.

DrLabRat

Of course, I think that falls under the realm of common sense.

Perhaps... but many people take one study and extrapolate. Just look at Dr. Oz and his following. All that bit on raspberry ketones? Based on a study in rats, not humans, and yet there are many who assume that what is good for the rat is good for the human.

"Common sense" really isn't that common Far too many (including physicians who should know better) also assume what is good for the adult human is good for the pediatric human.

DeniseB0711

I haven't read all of the responses but I wanted to stop by and ad my thoughts to this discussion and perhaps someone could if I am wrong correct me.
In the past I have tracked my child's intake of the macro nutrients and found something startling...he can very easily ingest up to 70% of his daily calories in Carbs. I'll be honest hear, but this includes sources like milk, whole grain bread, pastas, crackers, sodas, ect.
Wouldn't in theory if a child either A. increased their activity level that would be suitable for such high carb intake. or B. simply reduced the amount of carbs they ate, they would be less fatty (note I said fatty, not overweight as we all know you can be overweight with a low body fat percentage).
I wouldn't put a child on a SUPER low carb diet, but I would think reducing total carb intake to just 40% of the daily calorie intake would help with fat deposition...or are we arguing over whether or not fat makes us fat or carbs/sugar makes us fat?

Denise

Kmenczynski88

Overweight children are overweight because of over consumption. Fricken parents just need to take note.

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I'm amazed that you remember to copy and paste your signature to every single post you make. It's obnoxious but I'm sure that kind of dedication and stick-to-it-ive-ness has served you well in life. Plus it makes it easy to skip over your posts when I've reached my limit for the day.

Yet it is the only logical response....

AlabasterVerve

I haven't read all of the responses but I wanted to stop by and ad my thoughts to this discussion and perhaps someone could if I am wrong correct me.
In the past I have tracked my child's intake of the macro nutrients and found something startling...he can very easily ingest up to 70% of his daily calories in Carbs. I'll be honest hear, but this includes sources like milk, whole grain bread, pastas, crackers, sodas, ect.
Wouldn't in theory if a child either A. increased their activity level that would be suitable for such high carb intake. or B. simply reduced the amount of carbs they ate, they would be less fatty (note I said fatty, not overweight as we all know you can be overweight with a low body fat percentage).
I wouldn't put a child on a SUPER low carb diet, but I would think reducing total carb intake to just 40% of the daily calorie intake would help with fat deposition...or are we arguing over whether or not fat makes us fat or carbs/sugar makes us fat?

Denise

I don't know if there's really an argument going on here? I posted a link to a study that states children lost more weight and had better health markers on an ad lib ketogenic diet than the children who ate a calorie restricted diet and the authors concluded that a ketogenic diet may be suitable for children. Nothing really surprising, just one more study to add to the other studies (two that were linked to) that conclude low carb diets were safe and effective for children.

Some questioned the study methodology and others rightly pointed out you shouldn't mess with your children's diet willy nilly because of one single study. And of course there was a variation of "just eat less, stupid".