That's Fit

Did you ever see the movie Lorenzo's Oil? If you haven't, I highly recommend it. In short, it's about a young boy diagnosed with a rare disease. Ultimately, it's found that a special diet with certain fats helped him. I just stumbled across a news story that reminds me so much of that movie.

Ella, a six-year-old girl from the UK, was recently part of a clinical trial to test the effects of a ketogenic diet on epilepsy. Ella was healthy until her first birthday when she contracted pneumococcal meningitis. The severe infection left her with both hearing and learning difficulties. Later, after experiencing seizures, she was also diagnosed with epilepsy.

There was a brief, few months after her fourth birthday when Ella was free of seizures. The reprieve didn't last long, but it gave Ella's parents a chance to glimpse their daughter free of the debilitating seizures. That was the impetus for signing her up for the clinical trial.

Many herbalists and nutritionists agree that fresh fruit and vegetable-based diet can be a great way to fight certain forms of cancer -- but how about calorie reduction in addition to eating well?

A report in the Nutrition & Metabolism journal has stated that a a calorically restricted ketogenic diet decreases the growth of malignant brain tumors in mice. As usual, we can always ask -- can this apply to human subjects?

Ketogenic diets are very high in fat and are generally used in cases of epilepsy patients instead of cancer fighting -- but not in this case.