Unpacking the Ketogenic Diet

The Ketogenic Diet is a high fat, very low carbohydrate diet that replaces carbohydrates in your diet with lots of natural fats, so the body burns stored fat for energy (ketones) rather than glucose. This metabolic process is called ketosis. The ketogenic diet was introduced over a century ago to treat epilepsy and seizures in children who were unresponsive to medication.

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