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Digestive Disorder

  • Humans eat approximately 500kg (half a ton) of food per year.
  • Coeliac disease affects approximately one in 100 people in the UK. There is an increased risk of one in 10 of developing coeliac disease when it exists in the family.
  • Approximately one in 1,500 people have Crohn's disease.
  • Around 100,000 people in the UK have ulcerative colitis, and the condition normally appears between the ages of 15-30.

Source: Cover Magazine, 2008