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What is Organic Diet?

Organic foods are considered to be naturally flavored foods grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

Reasons used & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons used # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 17 0
Slow my ALS progress 12 0
Other 4 0
Support another treatment 1 0

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Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Organic Diet (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
4 67% Other: 67%
Expense
2 33% Expense: 33%
Did not seem to work
1 17% Did not seem to work: 17%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped using Organic Diet

Currently Using Organic Diet

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
1
1
5
6

Stopped Using Organic Diet

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
1
0
1
3

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 24, 2009.