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The validity low carb diets is generally orthogonal to artificial sweeteners and probably should not be conflated.

• ethanbond 12y ago
  Thus the phrase "often including..." I wasn't attempting to disprove or contribute to his claims. Just to point out an interesting intersection of diet and seizures.
  • vowelless 12y ago
    Can you give a source for aspartame/artificial sweeteners being often included with low carb diet for treating childhood epilepsy? It doesn't seem intuitive to me that a diet to treat such a disease would often include something like aspartame.
    • ethanbond 12y ago
      Well a ketogenic diet is used to treat epilepsy, and artificial sweeteners don't generally conflict with ketosis. I didn't mean to imply artificial sweeteners are prescribed to epileptics. Maybe they're even specifically forbidden as well, I'm not sure.
    • darkarmani 12y ago
      > It doesn't seem intuitive to me that a diet to treat such a disease would often include something like aspartame. It's the avoiding carbs part that means they look to eat something sweet that isn't a carb. They don't prescribe aspartame; they just say don't leave ketosis.