Diet for epilepsy
A rigid diet that appears to halt seizures in children whose attacks cannot be controlled by drugs has been hailed as a recent breakthrough. In reality, however, the diet dates to the early 1900s, when doctors devised a dietary treatment for epilepsy based on the ancient observation that seizures ceased during periods of prolonged fasting. Fasting is hardly a practical long-term treatment for chronic seizures, but researchers found that a high-fat diet mimicked fasting metabolism without starvation.
