By high school, Macy Stahl had learned how food affected her Crohn’s disease, and she was able to figure out some semblance of a normal diet, even if it was regimented.
However, when she was 16, one by one, the foods she’d learned to depend on left her doubled over in pain. Her disease flares were more severe and more unpredictable than they had been before. Her already slender 100-pound figure was reduced to 60 pounds in just three months, and Ms. Stahl was severely