Modeling Patient Response to a Therapeutic Diet in Crohn's Disease

The CD-TDI will incorporate global principles of the Mediterranean Diet (MD) refined to inform specific food choices based on our pilot data results and published literature reported mechanisms of mitigating inflammation in IBD. Patient compliance will be measured in three ways: 1) Mediterranean diet score checklists completed every 3 weeks at the face-to-face visits; 2) goal attainment scores captured weekly to identify the goals set, and the goals attained 47; and 3) fatty acids profiled from red blood cells to identify if fat intake reflects CD-TDI fat recommendations: 35% total calories from fat, 15% from MUFA, 13% from SFA and 6% from PUFA with a 8 n6:n:3 ratio of 8:1