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If you have time read this. It's an interetsing Chapter from a Book Called Fiber Menace
http://www.fibermenace.com/book/excerpts.html#Crohn’s_disease
Crohn’s disease. If left unchecked long enough, enteritis progresses into Crohn’s disease. The mucosal inflammation gets so severe that it may cause intestinal obstruction—a condition similar to a stuffy nose during a cold, flu, or allergy attack, all of which cause acute inflammation of the nasal mucosa. The inflammation may happen at any point along the length of the small and large intestines, but it’s most commonly localized in the bottom section of the ileum—the place where clogging with undigested fiber, bacterial fermentation, and fecal reflux is likeliest to occur. According to The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: “Over the past few decades, the incidence of Crohn’s disease has increased in the Western populations of Northern European and Anglo-Saxon ethnic derivation, third-world populations, blacks, and Latin Americans.” What else happened during “the past few decades?” A substantial increase in the consumption of indigestible fiber, of course.
http://www.fibermenace.com/book/excerpts.html#Crohn’s_disease
Crohn’s disease. If left unchecked long enough, enteritis progresses into Crohn’s disease. The mucosal inflammation gets so severe that it may cause intestinal obstruction—a condition similar to a stuffy nose during a cold, flu, or allergy attack, all of which cause acute inflammation of the nasal mucosa. The inflammation may happen at any point along the length of the small and large intestines, but it’s most commonly localized in the bottom section of the ileum—the place where clogging with undigested fiber, bacterial fermentation, and fecal reflux is likeliest to occur. According to The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: “Over the past few decades, the incidence of Crohn’s disease has increased in the Western populations of Northern European and Anglo-Saxon ethnic derivation, third-world populations, blacks, and Latin Americans.” What else happened during “the past few decades?” A substantial increase in the consumption of indigestible fiber, of course.
