Do The Atkins Diet

Do The Atkins Diet

Do The Atkins Diet

A customized version of the Atkins high fat, low carbohydrate diet is looking promising as a dietary treatment for seizure disorders. The current clinical trials follow earlier studies which showed the Modified Atkins Diet, called "MAD," can be an effective therapy for people with drug resistant epilepsy.

Dr. Eric Kossoff, Medical Director of the Ketogenic Diet Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore MD, developed the MAD and began research studies using the diet in 2002.

Recognizing the Value of the Modified Atkins Diet

Dr. Kossoff is a lead investigator of these studies at Johns Hopkins. In a review for the American Academy of Neurology, he describes what prompted him to invent the Modified Atkins diet.