High Fat Diet Cuts Epileptic Seizures in Children
 (London, Reuters Health, 3/10/03)

Dr. Helen Cross and colleagues at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, found that 14 severely epileptic children had significantly fewer seizures while on a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet for 3 months. The high-fat diet puts the metabolism into ketosis, causing the body to use fat, instead of sugar, as its main energy source. Cross and her associates plan to compare 2 different forms of the diet in a study of 120 children, in which 60 are given cream, butter and oil; while the other half obtain some of their fat intake through supplementation.