Organic food heals Crohn’s disease

Organic food—expensive! Should we eat this expensive organic food for better health in Crohn’s?

Would organic diet be better for healing Crohn’s?

Gasche and colleagues from Austria tested the hypothesis that organic diet is better for treating Crohn’s disease.

Patients with Crohn’s received organic diet or a control diet (low-fiber, low-fat, and high-carbohydrate). Outcome measures included MRI, endoscopy, Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI), and the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ).

Organic food diet showed improvement in their intestinal lesions not seen in patients assigned to a high-carbohydrate diet. The investigators concluded that food as part of the modern Western lifestyle may cause persistence of intestinal Crohn's lesions.

Diet and environmental have been linked to risk for Crohn’s disease. Diet and environment are not mutually exclusive. The increase in incidence of Crohn’s disease in recent decades suggests environmental risk factors associated with a Western lifestyle may contribute to Crohn’s disease.

What kind of diet do you prefer? Would you be willing to spend more for organic food in your diet based on this study?