This " use it or lose it " factor contributes to much of the weight loss found in ketogenic diets.

Ketosis is deliberately induced by use of a ketogenic diet as a medical intervention in cases of intractable epilepsy.

The ketogenic diet is a mainstream, nonpharmacologic therapy that was developed to reproduce the success and remove the limitations of the non-mainstream use of fasting to treat epilepsy.

His trial on a few epilepsy patients in 1921 was the first use of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for epilepsy.

Barborka concluded that adults were least likely to benefit from the diet, and the use of the ketogenic diet in adults was not studied again until 1999.

By 2007, the ketogenic diet was available from around 75 centres in 45 countries, and less restrictive variants, such as the modified Atkins diet, were in use, particularly among older children and adults.

Long-term use of the ketogenic diet in children increases the risk of retarded growth, bone fractures and kidney stones.

About 20 % of children on the ketogenic diet achieve freedom from seizures, and many are able to reduce the use of anticonvulsant drugs or eliminate them altogether.

, there is insufficient evidence to support the use of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for these conditions ; however, clinical trials for many of them are ongoing.

Calling themselves a " consociate family ", they agreed to follow a strict vegetarian diet and to till the land without the use of animal labor.

There were some exceptions to the diet, such as local vegetation and animals, but the colonists attempted to use these items in the same fashion as they had their equivalents or ignore them if they could.

Much of the diet involved the use of peppers, as it still does today.

" Landscape use and diet of coyotes, Canis latrans, in the Chicago metropolitan area ", Masters Thesis, Utah State University.

By contrast, the Europeans never infused it into their general diet, but have compartmentalized its use to sweets and desserts.

It is used mainly in the treatment of children with severe, medically intractable epilepsies, and the New York Times reported that use is supported by peer-reviewed research that found that the diet reduced seizures among drug-resistant epileptics by > 50 % in 38 % of patients and by > 90 % in 7 % of patients.

Along with a current trend towards environmentalism, people in Western culture have had an increasing trend towards the use of herbal supplements, foods for a specific group of person ( such as dieters, women, or athletes ), functional foods ( fortified foods, such as omega-3 eggs ), and a more ethnically diverse diet.

In the year 1569, Girolamo Mercuriale from Forlì ( Italy ) wrote Le Arte Gymnastica, that brought together his study of the attitudes of the ancients toward diet, exercise and hygiene, and the use of natural methods for the cure of disease.

The challenge with diet triggers is that they vary from person to person: the best way for a person to discover his or her own triggers is to use an elimination diet.

He noted that while these pathogens can be found in the mouths of wild Komodo dragons, they disappear from the mouths of captive animals, due to a cleaner diet and the use of antibiotics.

Although humans and other mammals use various biosynthetic pathways to both break down and synthesize lipids, some essential lipids cannot be made this way and must be obtained from the diet.

A macrobiotic diet ( or macrobiotics ), from " macro " ( long ) and " bios, biot -" ( life ), is a dietary regimen which involves eating grains as a staple food supplemented with other foodstuffs such as local vegetables, avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods and most animal products.

Metabolism rate is determined by gender, age, diet, genetic makeup, disease state ( if any ), and use of other medications.

Tadpoles use a relatively long, spiral ‐ shaped gut to digest that diet.

NOI adherents stress a healthy diet and physical fitness, do not consume pork or alcohol, and do not use drugs or tobacco.

The use of antibiotics and hormones in cattle and birds, artificial food additives like artificial colors / flavors, artificial sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup and aspartame, artificial preservatives, etc., prompted " propaganda " films like Super Size Me ( 2004 ), King Corn ( 2007 ), Food, Inc. ( 2008 ), Forks Over Knives ( 2011 ), and others to promote food awareness, organic farming and eating local organic food, reducing and eliminating pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and synthetic fertilizers, and adopting a vegan and / or raw food diet.

* Claimed medicine was arranged into three parts: drugs, diet, and ' the use of hands ' - mainly suggesting surgery and the knowledge of anatomy and physiology through dissection.

At the same time the European diet grew a great deal sweeter as the use of sugar became more widespread.

The use of refrigerators in kitchens for storing fruits and vegetables has allowed adding fresh salads to the modern diet year round, and storing fish and meats safely for long periods.

Poorer general health has been found among individuals with severe mental illnesses, thought to be due to direct and indirect factors including diet, bacterial infections, substance use, exercise levels, effects of medications, socioeconomic disadvantages, lowered help-seeking or treatment adherence, or poorer healthcare provision.

A 2005 study by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio showed that increased weight gain and obesity were associated with increased use of diet soda in a population-based study.

Many species of modern primates demonstrate some sort of aquatic behaviors ( such as swimming, wading or diving ) and use of aquatic environments ( for thermoregulation, display behavior, range, diet and predation ) but many do not display the traits posited by AAH, suggesting the traits posted as evidence for the AAH may facilitate aquatic behavior rather than evolving as a result of it.

Thirty of these species of invertebrate use Ragwort exclusively as their food source and there are another 22 species where Ragwort forms a significant part of their diet.

Led by Bill Doolin, these mobsters specialized in train robberies but as a sideline they looted stores and robbed banks, making liberal use of their guns.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.

All artistic and mythological representations, therefore, are `` imitations of imitations '' and are completely superseded by the truth value of `` dialectic '', the proper use of the inquiring intellect.

We note the use of rhetoric as a weapon, the manipulation of the masses by propaganda, the `` mobilization '' of effort and resources.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

Often the historian must consider the use of intuition or instinct by those individuals or nations which he is studying.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Speakers declared that Protestants often make use of it, if, perhaps, by some other name.

The United States can use its aid as an incentive to self-help by responding with aid on a sustained basis, tailored to priority needs, to those countries making serious efforts in self-help.

The meaningful policies governing the purchase, assignment, use and management of state vehicles have been shaped by the state's administrative officers.

Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.

The urban land use study carried out by the planning division staff has consisted of identifying and mapping all urban land uses which are of significance to statewide planning.

The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

Steps should also be taken to link the Food for Peace Program with the Peace Corps, so that foreign currencies accumulated by the sale of U.S. surplus food under P.L. 480 can be put to use to pay some of the host country expenses of Peace Corps personnel.

This use is expected to increase to about 50 million visits by 1972.