Diverticular Disease Diet

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While inflammation is acute and symptoms are severe, eat only bland, easily digested soft foods. Organic baby food is best. If you have diarrhea, eating cooked carrots or carrot soup can help arrest it.

Limit your consumption of raw grains, fruits, and vegetables. People with diverticular disease often have difficulty completely digesting uncooked complex carbohydrates. Carbohydrates that are not fully digested can ferment, causing more inflammation.

Once the diarrhea subsides, maximize your intake of the type of quality protein found in vegetables, fish, chicken, and eggs, which are comparatively easy to digest.

Avoid processed foods, greasy or fatty foods, spicy foods, carbonated drinks, alcohol, and red meat. All these items will aggravate symptoms and make you even more uncomfortable.

Drink eight 8-once glasses of pure water every day. Water is essential for the formation of soft, easily passed stools, and also helps flush toxins from the intestinal tract.

Avoid eating seeds, nuts, and other foods with small hard particles that can become lodges in the diverticuli.

Once the condition is under control, eat a diet that is low in fat and high in protein and fiber. A lack of fiber in the diet contributes to diverticulitis. To make sure you get the optimum amount of fiber, maximize your intake of fruits and vegetables, rice, whole grains, and cereals. Thirty grams of fiber per day is the recommended amount.

Avoid refined and processed foods, which foster the formation of hard, dry stools.

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