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Diverticulitis isn’t anti-nut any more

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The researchers found no association between eating corn and diverticulitis.

And, the Strate team also saw no association between corn, popcorn, and nuts and diverticular bleeding. Plus, they did not see a link between these three foods and the development of uncomplicated diverticulosis.

They concluded, “In this large, prospective study of men without known diverticular disease, nut, corn, and popcorn consumption did not increase the risk of diverticulosis or diverticular complications. The recommendation to avoid these foods to prevent diverticular complications should be reconsidered.”

The authors of the study are: Lisa L. Strate, Yan L. Liu, Sapna Syngal, Walid H. Aldoori, and Edward L. Giovannucci.

They are associated with the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle (Strate); Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle (Strate); Departments of Nutrition (Liu and Giovannucci) and Epidemiology (Giovannucci), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston (Syngal and Giovannucci); Division of Gastroenterology (Syngal) and Channing Laboratory (Giovannucci), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Division of Population Sciences, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (Syngal); and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Inc, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (Aldoori).

The WebMD article concludes by saying, “Many doctors [today] recommend that patients with diverticular disease eat a high-fiber diet; nuts, corn and popcorn are high-fiber foods.”

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