High-Fat Diet Found to Fight Seizures in Kids

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A diet high in fat—extremely high in fat, that is—has just been shown in a clinical trial to cut seizure frequency in children with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy. It's not a cure, and it's not an easy treatment to stomach, but it works, British researchers reported Friday in the journal Lancet Neurology.

Dr. Atkins himself might have gagged on the therapeutic regimen, which is called the ketogenic diet. It's so fatty that carbohydrates and protein combined aren't permitted to account for more than twenty-five percent of total calories

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