Recipes: How you can eat to beat gut inflammation

Eating a Mediterranean-style diet can help people manage IBD symptoms, and a new cookbook from Crohn's & Colitis Ireland explains how to achieve this.

Diet can play an important part in managing symptoms of IBD, a group of lifelong conditions that cause inflammation of the gut, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

“What can I eat?” 

If you’re told that you have a chronic disease, it’s often the first question that you ask your consultant. When that diagnosis is inflammatory bowel disease - IBD - a condition that affects more than 40,000 in Ireland, it’s an even more urgent query.