“Food as Medicine” Special Issue (AJG)

The “Food as Medicine” special issue acknowledges the intense interest in diet by patients, providers and researchers alike. In fact, just in the past year, over 30,000 publications are listed on PubMed with the keyword “diet.” For patients with chronic gastrointestinal diseases, questions surrounding the role of diet in etiology and treatment are common but often understudied. For example, in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diet and alternative therapy are consistently named the most important unmet needs in IBD research in a patient-prioritized research agenda (¹).