A study found that a short-term, calorie-restrictive diet significantly improved symptoms of Crohn’s disease

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/01/crohns-disease-diet.html

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 219d (4 replies)

Is that not intuitive? Eating less puts less strain on your irritable digestive system. I bet a study on back pain would find that carrying less weight would help, too.

Like, it's good to confirm these hypotheses with science, but is it news?

Levi@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 219d

It sounds like they only ate less for 5 days of the month though, and felt better over the whole month. I wouldn't have expected that at least, so kinda interesting?

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 219d (1 reply)

Lots of people find incorrect things intuitive despite them being incorrect.

Studies that confirm things, especially in a variety of people, are always good.

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d

That makes sense to me, and I think scientific research is frequently confirming or debunking things everyone assumes are true. I just think it's not particularly newsworthy.

hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 219d

As an autoimmune disease Crohn‘s doesn’t necessarily correlate with food intake. Food might have an effect on the symptoms but the basic problem still remains.