This one really makes you question the consumption of grains.

"Giving children with epilepsy a special low carb diet reduces the number of seizures they experience by 75% compared with children on a normal diet, according to a study carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital."

Epilepsy effects about one in two hundred children, quite a staggering number. But, moms actually noticed their children being calmer and their behavior and learning improved within days of a low carb diet being introduced.

Ella developed epilepsy after contracting meningitis when she was one. She is now profoundly deaf, has severe learning difficulties and before taking part in the trial she was suffering up to 12 seizures a day. "It made it very hard for her to learn because she couldn't concentrate at all," said Farrand. "She was a complete and absolute whirlwind. She couldn't settle for anything even for a minute." After starting the diet she was seizure-free for six months and now no longer needs to take anti-epilepsy medication...

...The team found that the number of seizures per day in the ketogenic diet group dropped to 62% of the level before the change, while the control group's seizures increased by 37%.

Wow, "the control group's seizures increased by 37%" while the low carb group decreased to 62%!

See the report here.