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Keto: Diet fad or food fix?

The Food Programme

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The Connection Between Diet and Epilepsy

An osteopath first wrote about the fact that starving an individual with epileptic seizures upto three weeks and only giving them water could actually have a significant effect on sizures. This did indeed occur in small cohorts of individuals. In the 19 nineties, quite a prominent child was made seizure free utilizing the ketogenic diet through the johns hopkins clinic in baltimore. And this was the son of a film producer, jim abrams, who, having seen the dramatic effect of the diet, made a film, starry merril streak, do no harm to promote it.

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