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Nutrition for Diverticulitis Dietary Principles:
Acute Cases:
* Increase fluids.
* Short fruit or vegetable juice fasts: Stay on the fast for 2 or 3 days, then progress to a soft, semi-solid diet of mashed sweet potatoes or yams, steamed carrots and squash, bananas, melons, and apricots. Following that, add grated raw vegetables, as tolerated. Do this for at least another 2 or 3 days, then add cooked grains. Make sure all foods are well-chewed, then slowly add soft proteins such as tofu and fish.
* Avoid all fruit skins, and fruits or vegetables with small seeds such as berries, tomatoes, cucumbers, figs, etc.
Chronic Cases:
* Elimination/rotation diet, rotation diet, rotation diet expanded
* To protect against further bouts of diverticulosis, maintain a high fiber, high complex carbohydrate, unrefined diet.
* Increase cellulose and semi-cellulose foods in diet - vegetables without small seeds.
Therapeutic Foods:
Foods rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin B-complex, acidophilus, and lactobacillus
Recommended Fresh Juices: (Try each one until you find a juice that benefits you.)
Carrot Celery and lettuce Watercress Apple
Foods and Beverages to Avoid:
Avoid any food that produces an intolerance; also meat, hot sauces, spicy, fried, fatty foods, and salty foods, sweets, alcohol, coffee, and caffeine-containing colas and teas.
Specific Supplements:
Vitamin B-complex - 75 mg. 1 x day
Folic acid 5 - 10 mg. a day
Vitamin C - 2-3 grams a day
Acidophilus
Vitamin E - 800 I.U. 1 x day. (Begin at 200 I.U. and build up slowly over a 4 week period.)
Flaxseed oil - 2 Tbsp. a day |
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