True Diet Tips That MS People Swear By

Tried-and-True Diet Tips That People With MS Swear By
BEST OF TIPPI: These MSers have figured out how their eating habits affect their condition. Here are their top foods to eat and avoid, plus kitchen hacks to make healthy eating easier.


Let’s face it — eating a healthy diet is important to your overall wellness. And many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) say that making the right food choices helps them live better with the disease, too.
In fact, on TIPPI MS, a social tool for sharing your go-to tips for living with MS, food is one of the most popular topics that people are talking about.
While an exact MS diet doesn’t exist, “clean eating” and eliminating certain trigger foods can provide benefits like improving your energy level and reducing the impact of other symptoms. According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), diet could even play a role in disease progression.
But don’t just take it from us. You can read hundreds of real-life tips in the words of people who have tried it all on TIPPI MS. Here are just a few of their best diet tips.
TIP #1: Start With “Clean Eating”
Because there’s no specific diet for MS, navigating diet advice might seem confusing. But quite simply, the best diet for MS may be to follow the same healthy eating guidelines as everyone else. The NMSS recommends eating a low-fat, high-fiber diet that focuses on real food (like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean protein) as opposed to processed foods that are high in salt, sugar, and other additives.
TIP #2: Discover Your Trigger Foods
Which foods are off-limits for MS? That depends who you are as foods can affect people differently. While some people who have MS say that avoiding certain foods like sugar and dairy improved their symptoms, what works for them may not work for you.
To learn which foods may be troublesome for you, experiment with an elimination diet. The idea behind an “elimination diet” is to stop eating foods that may be triggering an adverse reaction in your body, then slowly reintroduce them, one by one, to identify how each food makes you feel.
TIP #3: Simplify It With MS-Approved Food Hacks
Now that you know what to eat, sometimes the trickier question can be how to stick with it — especially when you’re dealing with fatigue and other MS symptoms. Here are strategies to help you stay on track no matter what life throws your way.