"The ability to get into a ketogenic state safely without losing muscle, while maintaining nutrient balance. The Ketogenic Diet is a precisely calculated therapeutic diet based on age, height, and ideal weight for height. The diet is sufficiently high in fat, moderate to low in protein, and low in carbohydrates so that when ingested it allows the incomplete oxidation of fatty acids by the liver, resulting in the accumulation of ketone bodies in the blood and urine.
It is so constructed that it approximates the amounts of the various substances that are metabolized from the body stores of a fasting person. . Because the diet allows a patient to remain in a constant state of ketosis, it is known as the Ketogenic Diet.