Evidence a High-Fat Diet Works to Treat Epilepsy

By ALIYAH BARUCHIN
Published: May 6, 2008
A formerly controversial high-fat diet has proved highly effective in reducing seizures in children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication, British researchers are reporting. As the first randomized trial of the diet, the new study lends legitimacy to a treatment that has been used since the 1920s but has until recently been dismissed by many doctors as a marginal alternative therapy.

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