The recent increase in the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and especially of Crohn's disease is not a myth. Much speculation has been made regarding the effect of some known and some unidentified risk factors which might account for this steady rise but one cannot deny the contribution of the faster and more effective spread of information between scientists and the development of more sophisticated diagnostic techniques which enable us to categorize the disease in a more comprehensive way. Inflammatory bowel diseases come to the attention of the physician with different...