vegans with crohn's?
anyone else a strict vegan or vegetarian who has crohn's. what has your experience been?
anyone else a strict vegan or vegetarian who has crohn's. what has your experience been?
Yeah, dirty carrots.Isla said:My mind went to a very dirty place....
mmmm carrots!
Jeff can handle it.RHOV said:moving on from carrots, please. some of us are still young and innocent.
I agree with you that if a doctor says diet doesn't matter, that's irresponsible. My doctors, when I was diagnosed, said the same thing--and these were medical professors at the University of Iowa. (Weirdly, however, I was also advised to eat ice cream due to its softness, which, even if this were good advice--it's definitely not, I know now--it's logically inconsistent with "diet doesn't matter.") I don't think that--"diet doesn't matter"--is the consensus among serious doctors though. Doctors with degrees from third tier toilets, maybe. Doctors who became GIs only because specialists make more money, maybe. But doctors who actually have a degree of professional responsibility, doctors who care and are intelligent, I think they know better.hippie4lyfe said:I am skeptical of the general "scientific community" because they say food has zero to do with Chron's and that might be the case with how we developed the disease but clearly what we choose to eat can help us to heal or can further irritate us. So to say food plays no part in my opinion is irresponsible on the part of docs.
I'll have to go with the thin air theory.In regards to the forum topic...
I have actually seen a website say a vegan or vegetarian diet can cause IBD. Now the truth is the website was a religious one encouraging people to eat a diet that is consistent with what is written in the bible and it did not contain any scientific evidence or references to any other material. I have wondered where they got that from though (or did they just make it up out of thin air?)
Glad you are feeling better .I was eating what was on both of those sites and it put me in the hospital twice. Terrified to go back on a vegan diet. I never want to experience that pain again, would rather die now.
I was so weak at ill at work, that at lunch, I gave in and has thin slices of smoked salmon, half a boiled egg, tomatoe slices and some honeydew. OMS ( OMSELF!), I felt toooo much betttter!~~~~