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Improving the Care of Patients with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis through Nutrition
Diet is essential to the management of IBD. As it modifies the balance of the gut microbiome, it may have the greatest potential to alter it and the underlying activation of the immune system. Nutritional therapy is likely one of the most powerful tools clinicians have to alter the outcome of disease. However, it is often underutilized due to the difficulties in implementing it. Resources are provided to aid clinicians in integrating nutritional therapy as a therapeutic option.
NUTRITION IN IBD
Browse publications that establish the connection between diet and IBD and describe the rationale behind using nutritional therapy.
DEVELOPING A NUTRITION PROGRAM
Integrate nutritional therapy into medical practice through existing examples, training programs, and educational opportunities.
NUTRITIONAL SYMPOSIA AND WEBINARS
Original presentations and webinars addressing the use of nutritional therapy in managing IBD.
DOWNLOADS
Handouts, flyers, and other documents produced by NTforIBD that can be downloaded for reference or distribution to patients can be found on our Downloads page.
CLINICIAN RESOURCE LINKS
Links to external clinician resources, including presentations from the experts leading the field in research and implementation of dietary therapy, can be found here.
PATIENT PATHWAY
Patient Pathway is an educational resource to aid patients in the implementation of nutritional therapy. Educational content is provided to research and select the dietary therapy of their choice. Pathway also offers a database of nearly 1000 IBD-friendly recipes that can be filtered to comply with nutritional therapy options, dietary preferences, and special occasions.
THERAPEUTIC DIET COMPARISON
For those who would like a little more information about each therapeutic diet option, a comparison of the features of each diet can be found on our Overview of Therapeutic Diets page.