• Fibre is what we get from plant foods and is not digested in the body. Therefore, fibre travels to the digestive system and aids in promoting healthy bowel movements, as it adds bulk to our stool. Foods high in fibre include fruit and vegetables, wholegrain breads and cereals, nuts and seeds, as well as legumes which include baked beans, lentils, kidney and soybeans. When we think of fibre we additionally need to be thinking about water or fluid as both works together hand in hand. We need to ensure we are consuming enough water to assist the fibre in healthy bowel movements. We can think about a dried-up tube of toothpaste that’s hard to release any product. We can think of fibre as the bulking agent to the tube and the water as a lubricant to the dried-up toothpaste. With both working together we can manage to get product out of the tube more easily than before. Although we want to aim to include a high fibre diet to help with your diverticular disease, during a flare up we want to decrease fibre intake to give your large intestine time to rest as the frequency of our stools will decrease allowing the bloating, cramping, diarrhoea to subside.