*MS Article* Diet that may help MS?

[Guest guest]

Hi

This was posted to another list and I thought I would pass it on. Of

course, there are diets that many claim have helped their MS (and for

some have done little if anything at all), like Edgar Cayce's Diet,

Best Bet Diet, Swank Diet etc. Here is the article (it mentions MS

right at the end). Adam:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1090196.ece

Doctors devise new diet that can help asthma and arthritis

By Dobson

Independent (UK) Published: 18 June 2006

Scientists claim to have discovered a new diet that not only ensures

weight loss but also tackles diseases and could even prolong life,

according to a new report.

Doctors and scientists, who have been testing the diet on themselves

for three years, say it can have health benefits on diverse conditions

ranging from asthma to heart disease.

Dr , who co-wrote the report with colleagues from

Stanford and New Orleans universities, said the diet involves eating

normally one day and then cutting food intake the next day to between

20 and 50 per cent.

Dr , who reports having lost 35lbs in the first 11 weeks of

being on the diet, said: " We have observed improvement in a variety of

disease conditions, starting within two weeks, including insulin

resistance, asthma, seasonal allergies, rheumatoid arthritis,

osteoarthritis, infectious disease, periodontal disease, and cardiac

arrhythmias. "

For people who want to lose weight, according to the report, the diet

has the psychological advantage of not subjecting them to permanent

food deprivation. But the scientists said what they call " up-day,

down-day " dieting also has health-promoting effects.

" For three years we have experimented with an alternate day pattern of

eating in which intake is limited to 20-50 per cent of estimated daily

requirement one day followed by ad lib eating the next day, " the

report said. " This alternate day calorie restriction appears to have

health-promoting effects in the absence of weight loss. "

The report added: " Based on a broad range of calorie-restriction

studies in animals in which virtually all diseases are delayed,

prevented or ameliorated by calorie restriction, we propose that this

dietary pattern will delay, prevent or improve a wide variety of human

diseases, including multiple sclerosis. "

Scientists claim to have discovered a new diet that not only ensures

weight loss but also tackles diseases and could even prolong life,

according to a new report.

Doctors and scientists, who have been testing the diet on themselves

for three years, say it can have health benefits on diverse conditions

ranging from asthma to heart disease.

Dr , who co-wrote the report with colleagues from

Stanford and New Orleans universities, said the diet involves eating

normally one day and then cutting food intake the next day to between

20 and 50 per cent.

Dr , who reports having lost 35lbs in the first 11 weeks of

being on the diet, said: " We have observed improvement in a variety of

disease conditions, starting within two weeks, including insulin

resistance, asthma, seasonal allergies, rheumatoid arthritis,

osteoarthritis, infectious disease, periodontal disease, and cardiac

arrhythmias. "

For people who want to lose weight, according to the report, the diet

has the psychological advantage of not subjecting them to permanent

food deprivation. But the scientists said what they call " up-day,

down-day " dieting also has health-promoting effects.

" For three years we have experimented with an alternate day pattern of

eating in which intake is limited to 20-50 per cent of estimated daily

requirement one day followed by ad lib eating the next day, " the

report said. " This alternate day calorie restriction appears to have

health-promoting effects in the absence of weight loss. "

The report added: " Based on a broad range of calorie-restriction

studies in animals in which virtually all diseases are delayed,

prevented or ameliorated by calorie restriction, we propose that this

dietary pattern will delay, prevent or improve a wide variety of human

diseases, including multiple sclerosis. "

[Guest guest]

>Hi,

This is in respond to the diet that could help MS. I have been

dealing with a woman who suffered MS for twenty years and now taking

special vitamins that are helping her tremendously. She told me that

she used to lie flat on her back most of the time and now she is able

to walk. email me at katzshana@... for more info

Shoshana

> Hi

>

> This was posted to another list and I thought I would pass it on. Of

> course, there are diets that many claim have helped their MS (and

for

> some have done little if anything at all), like Edgar Cayce's Diet,

> Best Bet Diet, Swank Diet etc. Here is the article (it mentions MS

> right at the end). Adam:

>

> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1090196.ece

>

>