Go Nuts for Nuts and Popcorn

Nuts and popcorn are wonderful snacks for everyone to eat. We like to eat peanuts at baseball games and like to eat popcorn with our movies, but was worried eating too much of these wonderful snacks was not good for us because they affect our colon when we grow older. Well now there is a new reason for people to go nuts over popcorn and nuts. There is a new study released this week suggests that these foods may not increase diverticulosis risk, and that in fact people who eat lots of nuts and popcorn have lower rates of the disease than others. In a recent survey as many of 47% of colorectal surgeons agreed that their patients should avoid nuts and popcorn. The notion that these "abrasive foods" exacerbate diverticulosis is simply "an evolved theory" founded on a belief that nuts and seeds can lodge in the diverticula, the pouches or bulges that form in weak parts of the colon wall, and give the disease its name.

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