Something to think about.

From a CCFA webcast on Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis:

Dr. Loftus:

…And then, I think we always worry in the back of our minds, “Are we missing something really stupid and obvious?” You look back over 50 years, and these diseases were much, much less common back then. They are much more common now. It’s interesting watching over different parts of the world where they never saw IBD, and now they are starting to see it. The general theme is that as a country becomes more industrialized and more like a Western country, they start seeing more IBD. So is it something else entirely? Is there an environmental trigger that we are missing? And I don’t know. Is that in the food? Is that in the water supply? Is it a toxin? I don’t know. But I always worry about that in the back of my mind.

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