Effect of Mediterranean Diet in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Open to people ages 18 years and up

• 18 years old or older
• Meet classification criteria for inflammatory bowel disease including those with mild to moderate Crohn's Disease as defined by a Crohn's disease activity index between 150-450, with fecal calprotectin>250, within 1 month of enrollment.

• Unable to provide informed consent
• History of or current drug abuse
• Pregnancy
• Start or change in dose of standard-of-care treatment within 12 weeks of the screening
• Known allergy to any component of the proposed diet
• Subjects with significant other medical or psychiatric comorbidities and /or medication use which in
• physician's clinical judgment might difficult the interpretation of the results
• Patients that are not on a stable dose of medications, for instance, steroids, in between samples collection
• Patients on antibiotics
• Patients with C difficile infection within 4 weeks of enrollment