FIBER DOES NOT PREVENT DIVERTICULOSIS
Diverticulosis is a common condition, occuring in 60% of men and women 60 years old. These ‘pouches’ on the colon are generally asymptomatic and either remain unknown in a patient, are found at the time of colonoscopy, or come to attention when the patient develops a case of diverticulitis (inflammation of the diverticula ‘pouches’). That …