Bowel disease News
High fibre diets, like those that include broccoli sprouts or other cruciferous vegetables, may reduce disease symptoms.
The western diet has been linked to a variety of health risks, including Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and certain types of cancer. A recent study explains how a balanced Indian diet can help.
Research reveals paediatric IBD cases are rising globally, and approximately one in four of all IBD cases are now diagnosed before age 21.
The study shows that countries in the developing world may now be facing the same pattern of increasing IBD rates that the western world earlier faced.
Researchers sequenced DNA from the intestines of the two groups of mice. They found six bacterial species present in the mice with the immune cells but absent from the mice without them.
This yeast, known formally as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, "aggravated intestinal damage in mouse models of colitis," and also caused higher levels of uric acid in the gut, said the study.
A recent study has suggested that a certain type of parasitic worm has the potential to actually help treat the inflammatory bowel disease.
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