[Low-sugar and fiber-rich diet in Crohn disease]

Nutrition apparently plays an important role in the etiology of Crohn's disease. Possible influences by commercially produced foodstuffs and their additives together with changes in composition of the diet are discussed. Several examiners could show, that patients with Crohn's disease even prior to the beginning of their illness have a significantly increased consumption of refined carbohydrates if compared to a control group. Therapeutic regimes with reduction of synthetic carbohydrates as well as increase in crude fiber content of the diet have demonstrated a positive influence on the disease. Besides the conventional drug therapy a simultaneous diet as described appears to have a favorable influence on both acute attacks of the disease as well as extending the state of remission.