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Diverticulitis
Diet
Adapting
diverticulitis diet for weight loss
Diverticulitis
Diet
is a diet used to
manage symptoms of the condition called diverticulitis.
With some slight adjustments you also can use diverticulitis diet as a weight loss diet.
Diverticulitis
is an inflammatory bowel disease where small pockets or
sacs develop in the large intestines and become inflamed. These pockets
are called diverticulai. Diverticulai occur in the lining of large
intestines and extend deep into the muscle tissue surrounding the
intestines forming these pouches/sacs.
When
you develop many of these
sacs then you have a condition referred to as Diverticulosis. When the
sacs get inflamed then you have Diverticulitis.
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Symptoms of diverticulitis may include cramping on the left side, which disappears
when you pass gas or move your bowels.
Also some bleeding evident with
bright red spots in your stool as well as gas and diarrhea.
A
huge contributor to this condition is a low fiber diet.
A low fiber
diet forms a hard food bolus in the digestive tract. The hard food
bolus results to increase of pressure on the wall of the colon.
The
pressure then creates weak spots in the colon where the tissue bulges
out, forming sacs.
Food
high in diet fiber, of which the Diverticulitis
Diet consists of, makes the food bolus and consequently the
stool to be
bulky and soft.
This does not exert unnecessary pressure on the wall of
the colon. Diverticulitis develops with age and is also hereditary as
they result to weaker intestinal walls.
However diet plays the major
role in its development. Diets low in fiber and high in refined or
processed carbohydrate foods is particularly notorious in forming hard
stool.
Losing Weight With Diverticulitis
Diet
The
current medical nutritional therapy for diverticulosis if no symptoms
exist is a high fiber diet with the exclusion of seeds. Seeds get
caught in the sacs causing irritation. A similar diet can be used for
purposes of losing weight as well as managing weight.
One
of the main
causes of weight gain is foods of high Glycemic Index (G.I) that result
to a sugar roller coaster. The concept of the sugar roller coaster
because if G.I is discussed in detail in
"Go Beyond Calories" (And Lose Belly Fat Permanetly)
. Below is a short explanation.
G.I is a weight loss tool
used to rate the quality of a carbohydrate food based on its effect on
your blood glucose. A food with high G.I increases blood glucose
resulting to an increased insulin production to allow body to be able
to utilize the blood sugar. Insulin is associated with turning the
extra glucose into body fat for energy storage. Rapid increase and
decrease of blood sugar (the sugar roller coaster) is further
associated with increased need for food. A whole group of diets called Glycemic Index Diet
have been developed on this basis.
Both processes contribute to weight gain hence obesity.
A diverticulitis diet promotes high fiber foods.
Not only does the high
fiber foods prevent the condition they also control it. Most high fiber
foods are carbohydrates and vegetables. High fiber carbohydrates tend
to also couple up as low glycemic foods. They are whole carbohydrates.
Further more the nature of fiber is that it
increases in size once in
the stomach due to absorption of water. As a matter of fact, most
appetite suppressing pills and indeed many weight loss pills
have the main active ingredient as a fiber. A popular ingredient is the
fiber glucomannan that expands up to 50 times it weight in water. This
expansion results to increased satiety on less portions of food.
A
diverticulitis diet used for weight loss will have two main courses of
action. One, it will reduce the storage of starch into body fat due to
whole carbohydrate foods that have a low glycemic index. By slowing
carbohydrates digestion and subsequent release into the blood, the body
is encouraged to burn fat for fuel. It is also discouraged from storing
the incoming calories as body fat.
Two, it will reduce calorie intake by reducing the
portion eaten due to
increased satiety brought about by insoluble fiber that expands and
stays longer in the digestive tract. However the more extreme
diverticulitis diet that is used to treat the more severe symptomatic
condition would not be recommended for weight loss.
A
liquid
diverticulitis diet is used when the symptoms include abdominal pain
and bleeding. This treatment is done together with an antibacterial
medication. The liquid diet is used for a short time to prevent further
irritation and allow the intestines to heal.
A
diverticulitis diet and
exercises can be very effective in managing and preventing
diverticulitis. The same diet, with more understanding of weight loss
can also be used to lose weight and manage weight without having to be
too restrictive on what you eat together with the inclusion of a weight loss exercises.
A weight loss
diets
like the modified diverticulitis
diet is one of the
four keys to losing weight.
"Go Beyond Calories" (And Lose Belly Fat Permanetly)
details a
concept entitled "Go Beyond Calories". This is because to lose fat especially belly fat you will need to Go Beyond Calories. And to do this you need two things, just two things. These two are...
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