Mayo Clinic Minute: Can diet help with inflammatory bowel disease?

Editor’s note: Dec. 1-7 is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. It includes conditions such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. People with IBD may experience persistent symptoms like frequent diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain and fatigue. There is no cure and no exact cause, though researchers continue to look at how genes, the microbiome and environmental factors play a role in this chronic…