Diets high in fiber won't protect against diverticulosis
Monday, January 23, 2012 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
For more than 40 years, scientists and physicians have thought eating a high-fiber diet lowered a person's risk of diverticulosis, a disease of the large intestine in which pouches develop in the colon wall. A new study of more than 2,000 people reveals the opposite may be true.