Foods to Avoid When You Have MS

SOURCES:

Celiac Disease Foundation: “What is Gluten?”

Multiple Sclerosis Association of America: “Can Certain Foods Trigger MS Symptoms?”

Julie Fiol, registered nurse; director of MS information, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York City.

Whitney Linsenmeyer, PhD, registered dietitian; spokesperson, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; assistant professor of nutrition, Saint Louis University, St. Louis.

Interactive Journal of Medical Research: “Diet and Multiple Sclerosis: Scoping Review of Web-Based Recommendations.”

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: “What is the Ketogenic Diet?”

University of California, San Francisco: “Diabetes Education Online: Ketones.”

Trials: “Ketogenic diet and fasting diet as Nutritional Approaches in Multiple Sclerosis (NAMS): protocol of a randomized controlled study.”

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders: “An overview of the current state of evidence for the role of specific diets in multiple sclerosis,” “Randomized-controlled trial of a modified Mediterranean dietary program for multiple sclerosis: A pilot study.”

National Multiple Sclerosis Society: “Bladder Problems,” “Is there an MS diet?”