Customer Reviews
MS Roy Swank Diet Book - By: , 24 May 2005 
Ordered the book through Amazon-hard back copy, as it was difficult to get hold of elsewhere.
Thorough reading, very interesting, lots of recipies. Had been using the diet for 2 months & it does work. Some parts of the book are detailed & one has to read it a few times to become accustomed to amounts of fats/oils permitted. Have spoken to people who have actually been patients of Roy Swank before his retirement & they continue to be symptom free after 17 & 26 years just by following his diet.An excellent buy.
Strong on advice and comfort - By: , 27 Aug 1999 
First of all, please consult a neurologist, with a very strong preference for a neurologist at an MS clinic, for current treatment guidelines. The treatment of MS is improving dramatically & the advice of a practicing neurologist must be usedin order to treat the disease effectively. The use of a neurologist at an MS clinic insures that one is receiving advice based on the most current medical knowledge. (I say that both from the experience of having a family member with MS & as a pharmaceutical scientist who has a reasonable understanding of new drug development).
That said (and it is true), this is a pretty good book. For 20-some dollars, you get a lot of MS-specific advice & a lot of good recipes. In the first 100 pages, Dr. Swank pulls no punches - he says what he thinks & backs his thoughts up with data. Although I disagree occasionally with his data analysis, & some of his advice is outdated (wrong), I agree with the basic statement that a low-fat diet decreases the rate of progression of the disease by increasing the health & integrity of the cardiovascular system. In the next 250 pages, Dr. Swank lays down the ground rules of a healthy diet for MS patients (lowin fat, especially animal fat), & offers a wide selection of healthy recipes.
This is certainly no must-buy book - I really liked it for the comfort it offered, but disliked it the outdated science that was mixedin with the good advice.
Exellent for MS Patients, best info. on market to cope with - By: , 13 May 1999 
Very well organized, with much information & hope for MS patients & families. Let's us know there is hope & good food for us. Felt much healthier within a 6 mos period. That was 12 years ago. still going strong. Best information source for staying well that I've read
it is a very helpful book - By: , 03 Aug 1998 This book is great. It helps you understand many aspects of Multiple Sclerosis & gives you a comprehensive natural therapy. The recipes are very useful....however, I must say that Swank agrees with the use of dairy products as well as other animal products,as long as they are low fat (no animal product is 100 percent fat-free), & other researches have shown that animal productsin general can be detrimental to MS. So this is a good book, but people with MS should know not to stop there when finding alternative therapies for this illness. Also, Swank includes a section warning women against pregnancy, & as a person with MS I have gone through two pregnancies & my condition has only gotten better... this book fails to explorein detail pregnancy, childbirth & lactationin a woman with MS. Two books that I highly recommend for those with MS are "Natural Health, Natural Medicine" by Dr. Andrew Weil; & "Multiple Sclerosis" by Judy Graham
