{"id":217299,"date":"2025-07-07T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/healthy-lifestyle-linked-to-lower-diverticulitis-risk-irrespective-of-genetic-susceptibility"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:10:37","slug":"healthy-lifestyle-linked-to-lower-diverticulitis-risk-irrespective-of-genetic-susceptibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/healthy-lifestyle-linked-to-lower-diverticulitis-risk-irrespective-of-genetic-susceptibility","title":{"rendered":"Healthy lifestyle linked to lower diverticulitis risk, irrespective of genetic susceptibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/healthy-lifestyle-linked-to-lower-diverticulitis-risk-irrespective-of-genetic-susceptibility.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maintaining a healthy lifestyle\u2014specifically, a diet rich in fiber but light on red\/processed meat, regular exercise, not smoking, and sticking to a normal weight\u2014is linked to a significantly lower risk of diverticulitis, finds a large long-term study, published online in the journal <i>Gut<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, these five components seem to offset the effects of inherited genes, the findings indicate.<\/p>\n<p>Diverticulitis occurs when \u201cpouches\u201d develop along the gut and become inflamed or infected in the wall of the large intestine (colon), explain the researchers. It\u2019s a common cause of hospital admissions and a major reason for emergency colon surgery, they add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining a healthy lifestyle\u2014specifically, a diet rich in fiber but light on red\/processed meat, regular exercise, not smoking, and sticking to a normal weight\u2014is linked to a significantly lower risk of diverticulitis, finds a large long-term study, published online in the journal Gut. What\u2019s more, these five components seem to offset the effects of inherited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}