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This month's newsletter is packed with practical information to help you implement nutrition into your IBD management. Here is what you will find:

• Earn credit hours with ANHI’s free continuing education seminar for dietitians and healthcare practitioners
• World Ostomy Day on October 4th
• Announcing our 2025 Gold Seal of Transparency from Candid 
• Introducing our IBD Nutrition Care without Barriers Fall Fundraising Campaign 
• ECCO guidelines for diet and IBD management
• Spooktacular Halloween-inspired recipes

A Patient-Centric Approach to Integrating Nutrition in IBD Care

Join us October 7 from 12–1 pm ET for a free, live, accredited webinar hosted by Abbott Nutrition Health Institute (ANHI): A Patient-Centric Approach to Integrating Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care. John Stutts, MD, MPH, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, MD, MPH, FACG, AGAF, and David Gardinier, RD, LD, will:

• Discuss the essential role of nutrition, alongside medications, in managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• Identify clinical nutrition goals and select evidence-based nutritional options to support them
• Evaluate patients’ interest and motivation in nutrition, as well as their available resources for dietary changes
• Review a clinical case study using our innovative tool, the IBD Nutrition Navigator™ for a patient with IBD

Continuing education credit is available—1.0 Nurse Contact Hour and 1.0 CPEU for dietitians (pending CDR approval).

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the IBD Nutrition Navigator™, expand your expertise and enhance patient care.

Join us at ACG in Phoenix

Nutritional Therapy for IBD will have a booth at this years American College of Gastoenterology Annual Scientic Meeting & Postgraduate Course from October 24th-29th in Phoenix. Stop by and visit us at booth # 128. To learn more about this viritual and in-person event, click here.

World Ostomy Day On October 4th

This year’s theme is “Invisible Disabilities. Visible Support. The Global Unity of Ostomates.” 

We appreciate our organizational partners, United Ostomy Associations of America, Inc. (UOAA) and Girls with Guts for providing support and resources to patients.  

To celebrate World Ostomy Day, UOAA, along with their community partners SAIA, COGI, and Cheeky Charity, are holding a special edition free webinar. Cultural Influences on Ostomy Life will broadcast on Friday October 3, 2025 at 12:00 EST.

2025 Gold Seal of Transparency From Candid

We're Launching Our IBD Nutrition Care Without Barriers Fundraising Campaign!

Nutrition is a crucial part of living well with IBD, yet it's often overlooked. We're working with patients, doctors, dietitians, and researchers to change that and make nutrition care globally accessible. From September through December, the IBD Nutrition Care Without Barriers campaign aims to increase awareness and help break down those barriers.

By donating to our campaign, you help to:



• Provide trusted, life-changing tools and resources for patients and healthcare professionals, including education, guidance, and support materials
• Contribute to live programs and community events that offer connection and empowerment for patients with IBD
• Expand our dietitian-vetted, IBD-friendly recipe database
• Advance nutrition research to uncover better treatments and turn scientific discoveries into practical, easy-to-understand information that improve health outcomes

Your generous gift helps people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis to feel better, eat with no fear, and never face IBD alone. Please consider making a donation today and learn how your gift is helping change lives!

The new European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) international consensus on the dietary management of IBD provides evidence-based practical recommendations on how diet and dietary supplements should be used to support people with IBD.

💡All patients with IBD should have access to a dietitian with IBD experience.

👀The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics are good resources for identifying dietitians specialized in IBD

✅ Diet recommendations for induction

✅ Diet recommendations for maintenance

✅ Dietary management of IBD complications

👉 IBS-like symptoms

👉 Symptomatic strictures 

👉 Nutrition care before surgery

👉 Intestinal resection

👉 Stomas

👉 Ileal pouch-anal anastomoses

👉 Short-bowel syndrome

✅ Malnutrition screening and relevant nutrients to monitor in IBD

✅ Diet for IBD prevention

Videos on Frequently Asked Dietary Questions in IBD

🎥Have you seen our new video pieces on common questions on diet and IBD?

📌 Intermittent fasting for managing overweight in IBD

📌 Why you should visit your gastroenterology dietitian to identify food triggers and adopt a balanced diet

📌 It’s a myth that you cannot eat fiber if you’ve IBD



👉Feel free to tell us which questions you are interested in.

We are grateful for the collaboration and support of our Cor[porate Partners!

*Please note that Nutritional Therapy for IBD does not provide medical advice. The content provided here is for informational purposes only. Patients should always talk with their healthcare providers before changing their diet.*