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Several physicians advise their patients suffering diverticulitis from to avoid
the walnuts and the corn blown. Mistake, according to a survey led by American
researchers who show that this recommendation is non founded.

The diverticulums are the small pockets that form themselves on the partition of
the intestine when she/it is submitted to pressures, because of the constipation,
for example. When some bacteria accommodate themselves inside, these diverticulums
can become infected. follow Themselves the diarrheas, the nauseas and blood of it
in the stools. It is what one calls the diverticulitis. One presumed a long time
that the food that lets abrasive residues in the intestine, as the walnuts or the
corn blown, would accelerate the bleedings.

The American researchers followed more of 40 000 men aged of 40 years to 75 years,
on one period of 18 years. They noted that actually, the participants who ate the
walnuts or the corn blown regularly were less often affected by diverticulitis
that those that avoided this food. Among the subjects that endured diverticulitis,
the consumption of the two food didn’t have any impact on the complications and
the bleedings.

These results rejoice the Québecois experts. " He/it arrives that some patients
arrive to my office while telling to me that they don’t eat walnut or corn soufflé
anymore because their family’s physician advised against it to them", affirm the
Dr Mickael Bouin, gastroentérologue to the hospital Saint-Luc of the CHUM. "
However, no survey never showed any tie between this food and the diverticulitis.
One has business to a popular belief rather than to a scientific fact. "

Helen Baribeau, nutritionist, increases. " That makes a long time that I denounce

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