Also, I might add that the ketogenic diet for epilepsy appears to create a much higher ketotic state than Atkin's or any other ketogenic weight loss plan. From what I have read so far the diet consists of 91% fat and 9% protein, but I will have to verify. In other words, the symptoms and side-effects described above are drastically reduced in people in a lower ketotic state where urinary ketones are in the trace to moderate range.