“For a long time, clinicians thought that intravenous fluids were enough — based on anecdotal situations and some basic biochemical knowledge — but now we know that this level of care is not meeting the actual requirement the body needs to repair itself following extreme trauma.”

Without gastric feeding within the first 5-7 days of suffering their injury, patients had a two- and four-fold higher likelihood of death, respectively. Also, the study reports that every 10kcal/kg decrease in caloric intake was associated with a 30–40 percent increase in mortality rate.

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Nutritional Supplementation Can Save Lives

Scientists at Boston College said Tuesday that KetoCal, a commercially available, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet designed to treat epilepsy in children, significantly enhanced health and survival rates in animal studies.

“KetoCal represents a novel alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer,” said Tom Seyfried, professor of biology. “While the tumors did not vanish in the mice who received the strict KetoCal diet, they got significantly smaller and the animals lived significantly longer.”

According to its manufacturer, Nutricia North America, KetoCal is a “

Should you want further reading, the study above is published online at Nutrition and Metabolism. Or, see the feature reports from EurekAlert and UPI

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KetoCal Epilepsy Diet May Treat Malignant Brain Cancer