Why is diet management important for Yoon Jong-shin's disease-fighting Crohn's disease?
Jun 23, 2025
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Yoon Jong-shin said on the 21st that he had Crohn's abdominal pain after a long time. I couldn't eat with the rounding party and just came. Don't get me wrong."Cron always comes like this. You came to me 30 years ago, 20 years ago, when I gave you your name, Crohn, and now you are like a friend. Bad" posted on a personal account story.
Yoon Jong-shin previously confessed that he had Crohn's disease confirmed in 2006 and then surgically cut and attached 60cm of his small intestine.
YouTuber MrBeast, who has the largest number of subscribers in the world, also revealed his fight against Crohn's disease in February, saying that he usually refrains from foods containing potato chips, cookies, and corn, and keeps a strict diet that mainly eats chicken and sweet potatoes.
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As of 2023, the prevalence of Crohn's disease in Korea is about 0.1 to 0.15% of the total population, which is a rare disease subject to national management.
In Korea, the number of Crohn's disease patients is increasing rapidly, and it is often diagnosed between late teens and early 20s, and it is not uncommon in children.
According to data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of patients in their 20s and 30s in 2018 was 12,081 patients, accounting for 50.7% of all Crohn's disease patients, followed by 3,379 (14.2%) in their 40s and 3,355 (14.1%) under the age of 20. Compared to 2009, the increase in the number of patients in 2018 was 113.2% in their 20s, 111.2% in their 30s, 97.0% in their 40s, 75.7% in their 50s, and 47.9% under the age of 20, the highest among those in their 20s and 30s, followed by those in their 40s and 50s.
According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Crohn's disease is common in various nutritional deficiencies due to intestinal inflammation and malabsorption. If you diagnose early and provide appropriate drugs and nutritional treatments, you can maintain a long-term symptom-free state (clinical remission) and maintain your daily life well.
Therefore, diet is very important for Crohn's disease patients. In particular, in children, initial treatment is initiated with full enteral nutrition (EEN) instead of drugs. This is a method of eating only nutritional drinks and not eating regular meals, usually for 8 to 12 weeks, and after that, it is converted to partial enteral nutrition therapy (PEN), which supplements some meals and drinks. Even after initial treatment, fatty foods, instant foods, processed meats, and ultra-processed foods can cause Crohn's disease to worsen, so a personalized diet is important. In addition, micronutrient deficiencies such as iron, vitamin D, calcium, and vitamin B12 are common in Crohn's disease due to chronic inflammation and malabsorption, and it can also lead to bone health problems (decreased bone density, early osteoporosis) in growing children. Along with regular nutritional status assessments, the necessary supplements should be properly taken, and balanced meals should be maintained in daily life.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
