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Ketogenic diet: Is high fat, adequate protein, low carbohydrate diet used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refrectory) epilepsy in children. It mimics starvation by forcing the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. This results in accumulation of ketones from breakdown of fats by liver, and this increase ketones leads to decrease frequency of seizures.
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