Junk food update: We thought it would be helpful to share some of the work we undertook to try to rectify the story about junk food and Crohn’s disease. The media story centred around a BBC Newsbeat interview with a Gastroenterologist. In that edited item, the Dr suggested that consumption of junk food made people more likely to develop Crohn’s disease On BBC Breakfast our Chief Executive, David Barker, and Crohn’s patient Rachel Flint were able to correct this viewpoint, unfortunately a number of media outlets picked up and used the comment. Subsequently, we issued a statement to national and regional media outlets to state there has been no definitive scientific link to any particular diets or food additives as being a sole cause of the disease. We explained that there are many possible reasons why a patient may develop Crohns or Ulcerative colitis, including genetic and various environmental factors, and each patients case is individual. We called a number of journalists - including the original BBC journalist - pointing out the discrepancies and seeking a correction. As a result we were able to field a number of our clinical advisors across a number of different media interviews throughout the day and our viewpoint has been included in newspaper reports today. On social media there have been several hundred comments from people voicing their concern and understandable upset. We will continue to push for any inaccuracies to be corrected and ensure that where possible we take the opportunity to highlight the facts about Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis and the everyday challenges of living with these conditions. Thank you for all the comments we have received as a result of the work we have done to correct this story.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:56:20 +0000
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