Posts Tagged ‘Trials’

Animal, Human and Fibre Trials

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Animals do get diverticula and hence ‘diverticulosis’. Like mankind, such diverticula can be found in several organs such as oesophagus, ureter, bladder, jejunum or small intestine. This condition is rarely encountered in veterinary gastroenterology (1), there are only occasional case reports. Animals do not get the kind of colon diverticular disease (DD) that began to increase in humans in the western world from the beginning of the 20th century. Questions about human DD were inevitably directed towards diet. What changed around the 1900s and would a human diet produce colon DD in animals? (more…)