[Efficacy of low-carbohydrate diet in the treatment of obesity in adolescents].

The article presents our experience of low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet usage in fifteen children with primary stage 1-3 constitutional obesity. Criteria for assessment were dynamic changes of weight, serum lipid profile, changes in percentage of body fat content according to "total body" densitometry data, changes in indices of insulin resistance. The obtained data support that this type of diet is well tolerated by children; it normalizes cholesterol, triglyceride, and beta-lipoprotein serum values; reduces indices of insulin resistance while effective weight and appetite loss.

[Use of ketogenic diet in treatment of pharmacoresistant epilepsy].

Ketogenic diet (KD) is one of the most effective methods of epilepsy non-drug therapy. Ten patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy, aged 1.5-18 years, were treated with individually matched and strictly controlled KD with high fat content and restricted amount of proteins and carbohydrates.