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ketogenic diet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English

Syllables
ke-to-genic di-et
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A very high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children.

noun

Any diet plan that involves low carbohydrate consumption, especially fad diets advertised mainly for weight loss in adults.

Inflected Forms

ketogenic diets (plural)

Synonyms

keto diet ketodiet keto

Questions

What does ketogenic diet mean?
A very high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children.

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