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- Epilepsy’s Big, Fat Miracle http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21Epilepsy-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=all 5 comments
- Sam has 130 epileptic seizures a day but now the food he eats is controlling most of his seizures. His diet is just shy of 90% fat and has cut Sam’s seizures by 75% https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21epilepsy-t.html 9 comments science
- Sam has epilepsy, and the food he eats is 90% fat. The ketogenic diet, drastically reduces the amount of carbs intake, tricks his body into a starvation state in which it burns fat, and not carbs, for fuel. For reasons that are still unclear, this process has an antiepileptic effect! https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21epilepsy-t.html?src=me&ref=general 306 comments science
- In an average week, 9 year old Sam consumes a quart and a third of heavy cream, nearly a stick and a half of butter, 13 teaspoons of coconut oil, 20 slices of bacon and 9 eggs. Sam’s diet is just shy of 90 percent fat -- and it has cut his epileptic seizures by 75 percent. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21epilepsy-t.html?hp 32 comments reddit.com
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