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What is Swank Diet?

The Swank Diet is a low-fat diet, very low in saturated fats and polyunsaturated oils. It is also low in red and other fatty meats, high in grains, fruits and vegetables, it is simple to follow and in many cases alleviates chronic symptoms. Read more...Click to read more below

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) 50 14 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
General health 17 5 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Wholefood Diet and Vitamin D3 (sun) is everytihing from what I've been researching. | 2 1 Efficacy_slight
Support weight loss 1 0
Other 1 0
Don't know 1 0

See all 57 patients currently using Swank Diet

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 19

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Swank Diet

Weight loss 1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Swank Diet (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 7   Other: 64%
Did not seem to work 4   Did not seem to work: 36%
Expense 2   Expense: 18%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 9%

See all 11 patients who’ve stopped using Swank Diet

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Swank Diet

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

Stopped Using Swank Diet

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Swank Diet

Always
 10 53%
Usually
 6 32%
Sometimes
 3 16%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Swank Diet

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 12 63%
A little
 3 16%
Not at all
 4 21%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Swank Diet

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 2 20%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 7 70%

Report created on February 12, 2012.