subject: Day 15- Colitis Disease Symptoms Crohns IBS Treatment [print this page] Using Diet to Control IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease
IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease can be very painful diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. While rarely, if ever fatal the pain and discomfort will come and go over the course of a lifetime, usually triggered by food and stress and anxiety or all of the above. Today, some researchers postulate that all this life long suffering may not be necessary. They feel that a change in diet is the ticket to a life free of IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease related symptoms and side effects.
The medical community prescribes a regimen of drugs, minor life change and possibly surgery as a means of managing the illness. Patients diagnosed with IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease are told the best they can hope for is occasional remission from the disease until a cure is found. The damage done to the intestinal tract continues unabated masked over by the medications, which often come with side effects of their own. The patient, meantime, gets weaker and weaker.
A number of food experts believe that western or American eating habits are to blame for IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease. This typical diet is loaded with processed foods, fats and sugar Researchers favor changing the diet altogether by going back to a simpler, unprocessed way of eating that is also free of extra sugar. The argument for changing the way westerners eat is a compelling argument given the epidemics of obesity, cancer, heart disease as well as other illnesses along with IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease.
IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease is in fact just one of a number of illnesses that chronically affect all or part of the gastrointestinal tract. These ailments begin to appear in other cultures when westernized eating and preparing food is introduced. People get fatter and start suffering and dying in similar fashion to Americans.
So what can you do? Experts recommend eliminating all meat, dairy, eggs and other processed foods from the daily diet. The optimum way to eat contend some, is to go to completely raw, organically produced food. Some experts maintain a raw food diet will not only control IBS, Colitis and Crohn's Disease, but will completely cure it.
This way of eating is not new, having been around for hundreds of years. It consists mainly of whole, raw or juiced fruits and organic vegetables with added portions of nuts, seeds and some fatty fruits. Those who are dealing with a chronic illness should first talk to a doctor before switching to a new eating regimen. If you wish to go it alone then start out with non acidic raw fruits like bananas. Simple fruits are the easiest to digest.
Day 15- Colitis Disease Symptoms Crohns IBS Treatment
