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What is the ketogenic diet?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

It’s Friday and I want to have some fun- so I’m going to post about the ketogenic diet. I’ll introduce the concept of dietary treatment of epilepsy now. I’ll discuss how these diets might be working in a later post. Of course, I’m no doctor and most of this info has come from research I’ve done on the web so please feel free to correct me if you don’t agree with anything. 

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