Ulcerative Colitis Remission With a Plant-Based Diet

A whole food, plant-based diet successfully led to remission for ulcerative colitis in three individuals in a new case series published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.¹ Two people eliminated their need for medication and the third reduced the dose. Returning to a meat-based diet resulted in a recurrence of symptoms. A case study from the Physicians Committee showed that a whole food, plant-based diet was also effective at Crohn’s disease, another form of inflammatory bowel disease.²