Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13030832
Keywords
Crohn’ s disease; inflammatory bowel diseases; nutritional therapy; diet; nutrition
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- Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
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The article discusses the impact of diet on Crohn's disease, emphasizing the importance of dietary choices and the potential risk of malnutrition with restrictive diets. It also highlights the need for exploring new therapeutic approaches for long-term management of the disease and identifies areas for future research.
The food we eat is thought to play a role in both the increasing incidence as well as the course of Crohn's disease. What to eat and what to avoid is an increasingly important question for both patients and physicians. Restrictive diets are widely adopted by patients and carry the risk of inducing or worsening malnutrition, without any guarantees on anti-inflammatory potential. Nevertheless, exploration of novel therapies to improve long-term management of the disease is desperately needed and the widespread use of exclusive enteral nutrition in the induction of paediatric Crohn's disease makes us wonder if a similar approach would be beneficial in adult patients. This narrative review discusses the current clinical evidence on whole food diets in achieving symptomatic and inflammatory control in Crohn's disease and identifies knowledge gaps with areas for future research.
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