Let nutrition be your life mission

NUTRITIONAL therapist Karen Ward doesn’t like to dwell on the horror of her Crohn’s disease diagnosis in 2009 and the operation that followed, just two months later, when the right side of her colon was removed.

Even at the time she felt extremely lucky and thankful to be alive, though she faced a lifetime of immunosuppressants and, as she puts it, “full-on biological warfare on [her] dishevelled body”.

She recalls, now, looking at her recommended low-residue diet of cornflakes, white toast and tea with milk and having a ‘light-bulb’ moment.