The specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) is an exclusion diet that’s used to treat certain health conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). When following the SCD, people cut out many foods, ...

How the Specific Carbohydrate Diet changed the life of a man with Crohn's disease. From childhood into his early 20s, Jeffrey Berger lived with Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel condition.