Its silly, i was told by my consultant when I suggested testing for food intolerances/allergy etc that this was not worthwhile as this is not the cause. However in my mind I know that certain foods cause real problems but I have no idea which ingedients so I have to follow a slow process of elimination, trial and error.
Is that not ubserd? to tell a person with a digestive disorder that the food they eat has no bearing on the problem!?!
Nutrition or the wrong nutrition may not be the cause but it sure adds to the symptoms.
A digestive care nurse at the hospital told me that she had worked in gastro care for the last 40 years and in the previous 20 years the cases of IBD (inflamatory bowel diseases) had risen hundreds of times and she was treating far more people in their 20's. She believed that the age of processed food, additives and genetically modified foods had a major part to play in the increased number of patients.
Nutrition should play a much bigger part in the treatment of IBD and plenty of other medical conditions, afterall you are what you eat!