> According to most web pages, hemorrhoids, inflammed veins in rectum,
> are caused by increased blood pressure from sitting or standing,
> straining, obesity, pregnancy, etc. Even my GI says the same. However
> this does not match my experience. In my case, hemorrhoids are
> strongly related to dairy, meat and peanut consumption regardless of
> other factors like exercise, sitting/standing, soluble/insoluble fiber
> intake, etc. Each time I remove them from my diet, rhoids dissappear.
> Each time I add them to my diet, they reappear. I have observed this
> pattern repeatedly over several years. Has anyone else noticed this
> type of pattern? If so, which foods triggered rhoids?
Add a lot of those foods to your diet and you will be slowing gut
transit time - same effect as reducing fibre (and you can hardly
eat a lot of those foods without reducing your fibre intake at the
same time).
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