Controlling Crohn's Disease - The Natural Way

The wrong foods come in many forms. To avoid them, one should follow the Crohn's disease diet. For more outside information from the program's information, the following books are excellent sources for facts on Crohn's nutrition: Breaking the Vicious Cycle, How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis, and The Acid Alkaline Balance.

Having Crohn's nutrition is for the purpose of ensuring "happy" bacteria in the intestines. Symptoms of "unhappy" bacteria are quite obvious, and may include immediate bathroom need and usage, which may or may not be during the day, stomach discomfort, highly odorous bowel movements such as flatulent-which is of course subjective, but will give a hint to the "flatulent-letter-outer"-loose stool, an excess amount of usage of the bathroom, and consecutive bathroom usage within minutes.

One reason why "wrong" foods encourage bathroom usage is due to high residue found in such foods that go against Crohn's nutrition. These residues are much like lube in the intestines, which will allow bowel movements "too easily" to occur. So, Crohn's nutrition lowers such lubing, which would cause pain, discomfort, and so on.

Simple carbohydrates are bad for everyone; they break down into simple sugars; bacteria love simple sugars. When bacteria eats such an excess of sugars in these forms, they multiply in a rapid amount, messing with the natural balance in one's stomach, intestines, etc. Bacteria in such numbers is unhealthy for anyone, but especially for the sensitive, such as those needing the Crohn's disease diet.

It should be first noted what one's stool really is-mostly bacteria. It's true. Stool is made up of fiber that has passed through the system, other "unneeded" parts of the consumed, dead red blood cells, which is what gives the stool its brownish color, and bacteria, which not only makes up plenty of the stool but helps bind it. Crohn's nutrition helps police the balance by keeping the order as well as encouraging a better one, which is the healthy goal of the Crohn's diet.

So, "bad" foods encourage an unhealthy balance in bacteria. This is primarily what happens with people sensitive to milk-when such people eat or drink dairy, the bacteria in those peoples' systems multiply so rapidly that the body cannot contain it and must expel them, via either stool that has not had the time to harden and give further nutrients in the large intestine and therefore is diarrhea, or by vomiting. Crohn's nutrition discourages such situations; the Crohn's disease diet helps irradiate such quick expulsions of bacteria because the body will have a healthy balance.