Diet: Diverticulitis And Diet

Diverticulitis is another one of those conditions that has followed
from industrialisation, and a fundamental change in eating habits to
a diet of processed food. The condition emerged after milling became
commonplace in Western countries, starting in the US. Milling grains
strips out valuable fibre, and since the early 20th century a
shortage of fibre in diets has been commonplace amongst the
American, and other Western, population.

Diverticulitis actually follows on from a condition called
diverticulosis, which tends to come with age, particularly over 60.
Diverticulosis is quite common, and past the age of 60 about half
the population have this condition. With diverticulosis people
experience the formation of small pouches in the intestinal tracts.
These pouches are called diverticula. They are, in themselves,
harmless, and most people never know they have them.