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Big Fat Brains

For reasons researchers don't quite understand, a high-fat diet appears to cut or end completely severe epileptic seizures in children. The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carb diet that is more effective than drugs for some kids.

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A Berman|3.10.03 @ 3:45AM|

Well, this may be a minefield here, but Gary Taub's article on the Atkin's diet did mention that Ketosis experts claim that the brain works much more efficiently on Ketones than on glucose.

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