Crohn's Disease  

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Crohn's Disease covers a spectrum of illness from early, relatively mild bowel inflammation to more destructive and even life-threatening disease. We are advocating rigorous changes in life-style, diet and the conquest of addiction - no smoking and no compulsive eating. We acknowledge that self-responsible action is difficult and that heroic measures may be required to alter disease-causing conditions. The inflamed digestive tract is injured and does not work well. You have to assume that your body is damaged and must heal.

• You need to rest and recover.
• You need to be flexible and adjust your food supply to match the limited ability of your digestive tract to handle foods.
• You will do best on a controlled diet of safe foods for years to come

The Alpha Nutrition diet revision program  is designed to discover a new diet that reduces immediate symptoms and reduces the long-term risk of the disease progressing. The first Phase of Alpha Nutrition is an attempt to clear symptoms. This is home science. You start with the hypothesis that your food intake is causing or contributing to your illness and you do an experiment to find out if it is true.

You want to accomplish three important goals:

Remove all the problems in your existing food supply

Reintroduce the best, nourishing, low-risk foods

Alpha ENF can supply nutrients before, during and after recovery.

You will require increased nutrient intake to heal properly. Often recovery involves a period of reduced food intake or fasting. Alpha ENF can be used as a completely absorbed, fully nourishing food-replacement. Alpha ENF can be used to supply nutrients that may be in short supply - such as amino acids, B vitamins, vitamins D and B₁₂ and minerals such a calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc. Poor nutrition and food allergy may be hidden causes of slow recovery and prolonged disability. The delayed food allergy mechanisms promote a whole range of discomforts along with food cravings.

We think that some proteins are high-risk food components in Crohn's disease and we are concerned about the adverse effects of hydrolyzed proteins. The highest risk proteins appear to be albumin from eggs and milk, globulin and casein from milk, muscle proteins from meat, gluten the proteins in wheat, rye, barley and oats and sometimes soya proteins. Proteins from vegetable sources appear to be better tolerated. Meal replacement formulas made with milk, egg or soya proteins should be avoided.

Alpha ENF avoids all the protein problems by supplying the nutrient requirement with pure amino acids. The amino acid content of Alpha ENF will supplement or replace dietary protein. Alpha ENF can be added to fruit and vegetable juices to make complete meals of simple beverages and can be added to soups, or puddings after they have been cooked to increase their nutritive value.

The most definitive rest and recovery technique is to take a food holiday. While fasting (removing the food problems) has helped many people improve, the penalties of no nutrients coming in are often too great for people who are seriously ill. We therefore recommend Alpha ENF use to insure that a complete nutrient set is available.

When you read Alpha Nutrition instructions, you will realize that there are three tracks through the program - fast, medium and slow. You need to decide the best track for you. With chronic inflammatory disease, especially if you have had bowel resection and fistula formation, the task of healing the wounds can seem daunting. There is hope of healing the inflamed bowel and the fistula with a prolonged food holiday on Alpha ENF- this obviously is not an easy undertaking and requires the patience of a saint... fistula healing may take several months.

You  become an infant for a while. You will need tender loving care and baby food. After improvement on a food holiday, you will do best with slow gradual food reintroduction - pausing frequently if any symptoms flare. You may find that a well cooked foods from the phase 1  list plus 4 servings of Alpha ENF per day is the most stable diet regime to follow for many weeks and may be the "safety zone" for years to come. .

Looking for a Solution? Do the Alpha Nutrition Program  

You can order An Alpha Nutrition Manual with the Book of  Food and Digestive Disorders as a nutritional starter pack. The book describes the features of Crohn's disease and explains how the inflamed digestive tract is injured and does not work well. You have to assume that your body is damaged and must heal. Often a food holiday on Alpha ENF is the best way to begin recovery and the Alpha Nutrition Program is an ideal way to design a safer, healthier long-term diet.