something UC'er's should think about.

I've said before I think thats why meat doesn't bother my uc even when flaring. I hunt for venison... a really lean natural meat. I also raise my own beef. so I know it has no chemicals in it.... I also don't pen my beef up.. they get out on pasture even to the last day before butcherin. So the beef is even very lean and all natural. I also grow and can most of my own vegetables.

I have read several articles that link the consumption of red meat with an increase in the likelihood of getting colon cancer. Unfortunately, we are in a higher risk group for colon cancer so red meat ideally would be kept to a minimum. I used to eat steak all the time and I miss it but I'm just trying to mimimize the risks. Anyways, here's the main part of the article

Red-Meat Eaters Risk Colon Cancer
Eating 3 Ounces of Red Meat Per Day May Beef Up Cancer Risk
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health NewsJan. 11, 2005 -- Bad news for beef eaters: Red meat really does increase your risk of colon cancer.

It's not exactly news. Many studies suggest that people who eat the most meat get the most cancer. Now a huge, 20-year study from the American Cancer Society confirms these findings. The bottom line: Those who eat the most red meat -- beef and/or pork and/or processed meat products -- get colon cancer 30% to 40% more often than those who eat these foods only once in a while.

Post Edited By Moderator (Judy2) : 11/12/2009 9:01:59 PM (GMT-7)

Free-range refers to another manner of keeping livestock and domestic poultry. The animals and poultry are permitted to graze or forage outdoors. The term has not been legally defined in either Canada or the U.S.

In Canada, chickens raised for meat, (called broilers) are kept in climate-controlled barns to protect against heat, cold, predators and diseases. The chickens are free to run (or roam) large areas at will and have access to feed and water 24 hours a day. This type of rearing is called free-run.

Also in Canada, chickens are not given any hormones or steroids. They are not available in Canada and their use has been illegal for over 30 years.


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Hey pancolitisandfightingit,

I certainly have noticed improvements all around from altering my diet (keep in mind I have crohn's colitis which is crohn's affecting my colon, and I also have crohn's perianal skin tags that are also associated with my urgency issues that I will likely always have for the rest of my life), that said, I'm also allergic or non-responsive to traditional oral RX used for IBD, I only have luck with cortifoam which I haven't had to use since altering my diet and taking probiotics. Pretty amazing since I would have frequent flaer-ups of proctitis on a regular basis, guess that's the biggest thing I've noticed since altering my diet and sticking with it.

As you may have read in your post about working out that I replied to, I've been doing that avidly for the last 8 yrs (flaring), I've never been in full remission (mainly due to my issues with my anal tags) and my GI suspected about 5 yrs ago that I also ended up developing IBS (which diet plays a big role in, especially the fibre aspect, same with regular exercise and probiotics). I just alter my work-outs according to my disease activity, pretty easy actually, it's all perspective, I knew totally quitting my work-out would make it that much harder on me in many ways, especially trying to start up again IF I felt better (and I do mean IF).

I used to be a junk-food junky, when I was a kid and a teenager I loaded up on sugary crap and processed junk and fast-food muck like there was no tomorrow...when I was a teen I had a very fast metabolisim and everyone in my family is on the lean side anyways so I could eat as much as I wanted and what I wanted and not gain an ounce if I tried (as you can imagine lots of jealousy from my friends but hey, I paid for it not by getting fat but instead by getting sick with crohn's). The CCFC has NOT ruled out food/diet as a possible trigger (environmental) for IBD so it's funny to me that others do when researchers haven't even confirmed it one way or the other (makes me laugh cuz I think for the most part it's wishful thinking that it's not related).

It was a long and hard fight for me to totally give up fast-foods, refined sugar and all that other junk especially since I never had to be cautious about what I ate (or at least that's what I thought), but I'll tell you this, my skin, hair, nails and my physique are all in pretty great shape just from altering my diet (and regular exercise of course) and although I know some people think that it's not so important how you look on the outside so long as you can get healthy on the inside but the truth of the matter is, often what is on the outside reflects the health of your insides and vise-versa. Unfortunatley, diet, exercise and getting enough sleep will all have a huge impact on any body let alone a diseased body. Of course there will be those that disagree but hey, how boring would it be if everyone agreed eh!

You're likely one of the few and far between (here) that admire me so I thank you for that compliment, like I said, I didn't make changes over night and initially it wasn't easy, unfortunately we all tend to get wrapped up in ourselves at times and don't give credit where credit is due...I applaud you for recognizing that what you put into your body will most definitely have an impact on what your body will put back out (no pun intended LOL).

I don't do the SCD or any of those other "diets"m and I do eat red meat (afterall us chicks need our extra iron for each monthly "episode") and I'm not big on iron supplements cuz they tend to be prettty hard on the guts...I eat onions, and other pro-inflmmatory foods like that but nothing processed, just good old fresh whole foods, all veggies, fruits, nuts, seeds, fish, chicken, beef, water and chamomile tea.

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Food/diet can be a touchy subject for sure but everyone has to make the choice for themselves I don't worry so much about what other people do, it's a very individualistic disease, unfortuantley we all need food to survive but in my own opinion we were not designed to eat/drink processed and fast-food (which is basically processed in iteslf) our bodies have not (and likely will not) evolve to the point of being able to break those kinds of "foods" down, some may strongly disagree with that but that's fine.

Everyone's experiance is different, some people alter their diet only when they're flaring and then once they are in remission they fall back to eating how they did before, they religiously take their meds and end up flaring again (this is justa an example from reading it here over and over again), could it be because they've gone back to eating things they shouldn't? Maybe, maybe not, but whatever, it's their choice, sometimes the RX don't work as efficiently over time either. I also believe this disease has more of a mind of it's own than what people credit it for (it's human nature to think we can control everything), this disease certainly has a way of bringing us back down to reality (we are likey not the strongest, greatest thing that has ever walked this earth). I have found over my 18 yrs of being sick with this disease that it infact does have a mind of it's own and research has also found a cluster of genes that predict the behavior and severity of disease for each patient over time, that's something we cannot control, but if making major changes helps even a little, it's worth it (to me) and maybe our lifestyle (diet, exercise) has a huge impact on how often or how long people's flares will last who knows, all I know is, when I ate crap, I felt it and not just regarding my bowels.

I hope the natural route and diet changes will do you wonders, and if it doesn't well at least the rest of your body will still be better off.

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Post Edited By Moderator (Judy2) : 11/12/2009 9:06:53 PM (GMT-7)