Ketogenic Diet WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Ketogenic Diet
A ketogenic diet is a very high fat and low carbohydrate diet that is used as a form of treatment for epilepsy. The high fat, low carbohydrate ketogenic diet is carefully designed to help the patient's body make large amount of ketones, which are produced when fats are processed in the liver. The diet helps reduce the number of seizures in some patients, although precisely why this beneficial effect occurs is not known. The ketogenic diet has been used as a treatment since the 1920's, but as antiepileptic drugs were developed, it became a less popular tool for epilepsy.
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- Contributor: Elisa Carter
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
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- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Elisa Carter
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Diet For Seizures, Diet for Epilepsy, Seizure Diet, Seizures Diet, Epilepsy Diet, Ketogenic Diets, Ketogenick Diet, Epilepsy Diet Plan, Seizure Diet Plan
- Last update: Sep. 16, 2008
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