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[1] Most epilepsy specialists order these children to eat 80% of the diet from fat by weight (90% of calories), plus carbohydrate-free vitamins and minerals to prevent vitamin deficiency.[2] Although this extreme diet plan can be life-saving compared to the alternative, it is not a harmless diet.[3] Children on this diet are at risk of broken bones, stunted growth, kidney stones, high cholesterol, and micronutrient deficiency.[3][4] It is not known how long a child can maintain this diet without incurring permanent damage to growth and development.[4]
What I valued about this was that it:
emphasizes that "keto" is not an inherently healthful, harmless diet that anyone can try, or that's safe to follow for years without medical supervision, and
it provides a comparison between diet that the bodybuilders/social media influencers are talking about and the one done by the kids with epilepsy.
Don't feel super-strongly about this; just was wary about overlapping too much with the main article. Bon courage (talk) 06:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that "the main article" is the right way to think about it. This is "the main article" for voluntary dietary restrictions; that is "the main article" for medically necessary severe dietary restrictions.
I think I'll put back all but the last sentence, and we can see how that feels for a few days. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
