A lifelong low-fiber diet is considered to be a cause of which disease?

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A low-fiber diet results in small, dry, hard fecal material.Intracolonic pressure increase as this fecal material is propelled through the lumen of the colon.This increased pressure is thought to be the reason for herniations of the mucosal wall.Support for this theory lies in the fact that diverticular disease is relatively rare in countries where a high-fiber diet is part of the lifelong pattern of eating.Ulcerative colitis, celiac sprue, and Crohn's disease are not related to a low-fiber diet.

A Lifelong Low-Fiber Diet Is Considered to Be a Cause