Monday, May 5, 2008

High-fat, low-carb diet helps kids with epilepsy

High-fat, low-carb diet helps kids with epilepsy - Yahoo! News:
2008.05.05
"Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures when the normal working of the brain is interrupted. A ketogenic diet has been widely used since the 1920s to help control hard-to-treat seizures in children...After three months, children on the ketogenic diet had more than one third fewer seizures, while seizure frequency increased in children on the standard diet...A greater than 50 percent drop off in seizure frequency was noted in 38 percent of children on the ketogenic diet compared with just 6 percent of children on the standard diet..."

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