Gallstones: How a healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk

How diet can reduce your gallstone risk, writes Lisa Salmon.

A HEALTHY diet and lifestyle is key to avoiding most health problems. But with gallstones, thought to affect as many as one in six people, with famous sufferers including the likes of Eric Clapton and the Dalai Lama, it’s not quite that simple.

In fact some lifestyle factors which may seem healthy, like low-fat diets and losing weight quickly, plus not drinking alcohol, can actually make gallstones more likely.