ketogenic diet

English

Noun

ketogenic diet (plural ketogenic diets)

  1. (medicine, nutrition) A very high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children.
  2. (nutrition, loosely) Any diet plan that involves low carbohydrate consumption, especially fad diets advertised mainly for weight loss in adults.
    Synonyms: keto diet, ketodiet, keto
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