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The United European Gastroenterology Conference was held virtually October 3-5, 2021. Nutritional highlights from the meeting include the following:

New Advances in Nutritional Management of Pediatric Crohn's Disease

This symposium was presented at the World Congress of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2021 and is available to stream here or on the Nutritional Symposia page. Novel dietary concepts are discussed. Preliminary results are included from the CD-HOPE trial evaluating the use of cyclic EEN (2 weeks of EEN every 8 weeks) as primary therapy in a pediatric population. A new “dietary responsive” phenotype is proposed. Preliminary data from adults utilizing CDED is reviewed.

The 16th Congress of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation was held virtually on July 2-3 and July 8-10, 2021. Below find a list of some of the nutritional highlights from the meeting.

As a result of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Curriculum – Patient and Caretaker’s Outlooks (SCRUMPTIOUS) Study, Stanford Children’s Health released a host of SCD resources available to both study participants and the public. This new webpage was designed based on their findings from SCRUMPTIOUS: that patients and families desired evidenced-based, reliable diet education.

In 2017, Kelly Issokoson, MS, RD, of Cedars-Sinai spearheaded the #EENChallenge as a way to raise awareness and show support for EEN therapy in patients with IBD. The EEN challenge consists of one day of consuming only enteral nutrition formula, ideally the same formula Crohn's Disease patients on EEN consume every day while on the therapeutic diet.

Digestive Disease Week was held virtually this year, May 21-23. Some of the dietary highlights for IBD include:

Three dietary studies were presented at Crohn's and Colitis Congress on Friday, January 22nd, 2021. Summaries of these presentations by David Suskind, MD, Arie Levine, MD and James D. Lewis, MD are now available.

Stanford Children’s Health is now enrolling IBD patients and caregivers for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Curriculum- Patient and Caretaker’s Outlooks (SCRUMPTIOUS) Study. This study is evaluating the impact of an innovative and tailored Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) curriculum, on the knowledge and perspectives of patients with IBD and their caretakers. Participation is via Zoom and participants will receive a $15 gift card.

Nutritional Therapy for IBD is excited to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter. Visit our Newsletter Page to subscribe or review archived copies of the newsletter.

Nutritional Therapy for IBD would like to announce the addition of the Therapeutic Diets Overview Tables. A common question when navigating therapeutic diets is “How do they compare to one another in terms of the foods that are included or excluded?” These tables provide the most extensive comparison to date. Most importantly, they have been reviewed by published researchers from each of these diets, not only for accuracy but also for proper representation of the principles of the diets.

Nutritional Therapy for IBD is proud to present the following five new original presentations that debuted at our Booth at the 2020 North American Society For Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Annual Meeting on November 1-7, 2020. These presentations were created by leaders in the field and cover a diverse range of topics relevant to the use of Nutritional Therapy in the management of IBD. We thank the following presenters who have donated their time to produce these informative lectures: Lindsey Albenberg, DO; Andrew S. Day, MB, ChB, MD, FRACP, AGAF; Kaylie Nguyen, MSN, PNP, and Venus S. Kalami, MNSP, RDN; David Suskind, MD; and Arie Levine, MD.