How Healthy Is the Swank Diet?
Nutrient Composition Comparison between the Low Saturated Fat Swank Diet for Multiple Sclerosis and Healthy U.S.-Style Eating Pattern
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Surprising Findings
The Swank diet has similar nutritional deficiencies as standard healthy diets, lacking fiber, potassium, and choline.
It contradicts the expectation that a diet designed for a specific medical condition would be nutritionally superior or uniquely balanced.
Practical Takeaways
If following the Swank diet, focus on adding high-fiber foods, potassium-rich items like bananas or potatoes, and choline sources like eggs to avoid deficiencies.
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Surprising Findings
The Swank diet has similar nutritional deficiencies as standard healthy diets, lacking fiber, potassium, and choline.
It contradicts the expectation that a diet designed for a specific medical condition would be nutritionally superior or uniquely balanced.
Practical Takeaways
If following the Swank diet, focus on adding high-fiber foods, potassium-rich items like bananas or potatoes, and choline sources like eggs to avoid deficiencies.
Publication
Journal
Nutrients
Year
2019
Authors
C. Chenard, L. Rubenstein, L. Snetselaar, T. Wahls
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Claims (6)
The Swank diet provides almost all the vitamins and minerals people need, just like the standard healthy US diet, but both diets fall short on fiber, potassium, and choline.
The supplements given with the Swank diet help fix low levels of certain vitamins and minerals like vitamin D, vitamin E, folate, calcium, and iron, but they don't help with getting enough fiber, potassium, or choline from food.
This means that the Swank diet is rated almost as healthy as a standard healthy American diet for adults in their 30s to 50s, and both diets are expected to lower the risk of long-term illnesses about the same amount.
A special diet for people with multiple sclerosis gets a very high score for being healthy and follows the same good eating rules recommended for all Americans.
When people actually eat the foods on the Swank diet, they might get too much salt, especially women under 50 and men of any age, even though the diet plans look okay on paper.