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Also known as keto, ketogenic, keto diet, Diet, Ketogenic

very-low-carbohydrate diet that induces ketosis, used in neurological and metabolic conditions

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Encyclopedic overview

Testing for ketone bodies in urine

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy that in conventional medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates.

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