Should have said highly technical,anyhow if you get bored just read the discussion. Even talks about
pre paleo diet,which we are probably more adjusted to genetically. What this has to do with UC, don't know but it would seem that the increased acid load on the body is not good. Perhaps many of our chronic diseases are due to a net acid load.
Old Mike
http://www.ajcn.org/content/76/6/1308.full.pdf