The Specific Carbohydrate Diet: Does It Work?
This is from our upcoming issue of CCFA’s national magazine, Take Charge. If you’re a CCFA member, you’ll be seeing this in your mailbox soon. Not a member? Join now to get a full year of research information, news on medical treatments, diet tips, coping support, and other great content coming to your mailbox four times per year. It’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, evokes passionate testimonials from its adherents, and spawned a best-selling book, now in its 11th printing. Yet the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, or SCD, has few published studies behind it, can be very difficult to follow, and has been dismissed by some doctors as scientifically unproven and even potentially risky. All of which leaves the person with Crohn’s or colitis caught in the middle, wondering whether the SCD is truly an effective treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or a dead end. This article will review the available facts and offer a variety of perspectives on the diet to help readers naviga
