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Published online 17 October 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011018-5
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Fat busts fits
A large, long-term study confirms that diet can help some epileptic children.
A strict high-fat, low-carbohydrate, calorie-restricted diet reduces seizures in children with intractable epilepsy. So concludes the largest and longest trial of an eating plan that was first suggested almost a century ago.
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