The difficulty is that the level of carbohydrates must be very low, and the temptation of a single sweet can upset the diet for a small child. A typical meal might include fish and green vegetables with a mayonnaise sauce followed by fresh fruit with lashings of cream, or bacon and eggs followed by coffee and yet more cream - so the diet is not as bad as you might have feared. Fats have had a bad press on the dietary front for many years. The reality is a whole lot more complex. What makes people fat is not fats, but too many calories.
Fats have an important role to play in nutritional health.
Even cholesterol is not as bad as people believe. The role of fats and their dietary importance is discussed fully in the section Understanding the ketogenic diet . For the moment, be reassured, the high fat content of the ketogenic diet is not harmful, even if it may sometimes be indigestible. The ketogenic diet is not a new treatment. There is even a reference to fasting as a cure for fits in the Bible.