The purpose of this blog

I have a grown child with Crohn's Disease. She needs to consume a large quantity of meds every day to keep herself in a stable condition. If, God forbid, she fails, she is overcome by the horror of a flare-up. This is not an experience those of us who do not have this disease can imagine. Even after helping her struggle her way back to "normal" I find what she lives with incomprehensible. I suppose this should be expected. However, I am her father. I do not mean that in any way except as it is written. My child, like any child with this disease or any other IBD should not be suffering like they are.

The one thing I can do that has helped her some and me some is do research. While doing this, I ran across a book titled "Breaking the Vicious Cycle (The Specific Carbohydrate)" by Elaine Gottschall, B.A., M.Sc. Subsequent research seems to indicate that by strictly following this diet people are cured of Crohn's and UC as well as other IBDs and perhaps Autism.

I am not involved in making money from this book in any way. I want answers! If you decide to post, I will see to it that what you write about this specific diet pro or con will be on this blog for any person to read. The exception to this will be comments I think are inappropriate due to language, or discussion outside the guidelines established in this paragraph.

Thus far, my research indicates something close to a 95% success rate for people who adhere to this diet without slipping or cheating for 2-3 years.

Please help me with this research. Let's discover if there is a dietary cure, or even a diet that will bring sufferers into remission and keep them there while waiting for science to find a DNA cause with a solution.

Also, keep in mind that the processed food we eat is filled with chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, and hormones that our parents, grandparents, etc did not consume. The number of IBD sufferers a century ago was very low as a total percentage of total population. In other words, these diseases were practically unheard of until the 1940s when the Baby Boomer generation, the first generation born since the advent of DDT type chemicals, processed foods, etc as well as an overwhelming number of automobiles and truck on the road came along.