Healing the Gut: New Options for Crohn’s Disease

Researchers at Stanford Medicine in California may have discovered a way to help people with mild-to-moderate Crohn’s disease feel better with some dietary tweaks.

In a small study of 97 people, the researchers assigned 65 people a very low-calorie “diet akin to fasting. Sidhartha R. Sinha, M.D., an assistant professor of gastroenterology and hepatology, and his team divided the participants into a group who ate a plant-based diet between 700 and 1,110 calories over five days, once per month...