Understanding constipation requires knowing its type; fiber can help or hinder based on individual digestive issues.

Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common cause of chronic diarrhea and lower abdominal discomfort in North America.

In the summer of 2002, Margaret Stamp returned home to Sarpy County from college four weeks after her 74-year-old grandmother ...

Margaret Stamp returned home to Sarpy County from college four weeks after her 74-year-old grandmother, Phyllis Behm, had ...

A recent study linked seed oils like sunflower, canola, and corn to increased colon cancer risk among young Americans. Analysis of tumor samples revealed high concentrations of bioactive lipids ...

Treating irritable bowel ­syndrome is notoriously ­difficult ... medication otilonium bromide, which reduces spasms in the gastrointestinal tract. Strikingly, of the 196 patients on the diet ...

Until now evidence linking cooking oil to colon cancer has been inconclusive. But the recent American study identified seed oils as the possible contributing factor when they examined tumours from ...

An esophageal spasm occurs when the esophageal muscles contract abnormally. (These muscles are located in the esophagus, the tube that carries food to the stomach.) Often triggered by eating ...

"It is well known that patients with unhealthy diets have increased inflammation in their bodies. We now see this inflammation in the colon tumors themselves, and cancer is like a chronic wound that ...

Colon cancer could be caused by certain types of cooking oils, a new study has warned. Oils like sunflower, canola, corn and grapeseed have been highlighted as oils of concern. The piece published ...

“In these animal studies, both in the colon and also in the lung, there are high levels of chronic inflammation consistently across all these study results. They are early predictors of getting ...