That is a very good question--how is our diet different from others that are written about? The answer is that it is different and it isn't different. Let me try to explain.
Many people over the years have recovered from MS through diet, and have gone on to write about their experience with the assumption that what worked for them will work for everyone with MS. Roger MacDougall, who wrote extensively in the 1970's about his recovery from very progressed MS initially made that assumption. Since gluten, fat and sugar were the foods he needed to eliminate, his recommended program was that everyone would recover on his regimen. He found out differently when he received all the letters from disappointed people afflicted with MS. If you were or are a person whose disease profile is the same as the author's, in that case, Roger MacDougall, you would have recovered. Some people fully recover on Swank's low-fat dietary approach.
MS being such a complex disease with each persons constellations of symptoms and triggers, it only makes sense that you can't universalize the solution or treatment. That is where we are different in our presentation of the dietary approach. In our book, we present the science and theory behind the treatment to allow each person to fine tune their unique treatment by identifying the foods that trigger symptoms, the foods that aid in healing, and come to a better understanding of their unique disease profile. We do this with theory and also with case studies.
This book is about MS, not Ann and Judi, though we tell our stories as just two of seven that show the many paths to healing, all based on diet, but unique for each person. Over the past few years as I have shared this information with others who have healed, I have learned more about the many faces of MS as well as new nuances to healing through their experiences.
I hope this answers your question--if not, ask again, and we can continue this dialogue. Ann