If you have diverticulitis tiny seeds are not recommended. If you strain on the toilet, over the long run equal to develop diverticuli. Your intestines develop pockets, sort of like blowing bubble gum when you strain during bowel movements.
When I was in boot camp there was a Master Chief cook who came to one of the early nutrition classes during the first week of recruit training and I will never forget this guy. He he started out his lecture by saying, “there are two kinds of food. Food that makes a turd and food that pushes a turd. Make sure you eat a lot of food that pushes the turd!”
And then he began his lecture on the importance of a balanced nutritional diet which The Galley would see to it that each recruit ate during their three square meals per day and how we were supposed to eat everything on our tray.
Of course the cooks on the serving line were sinister. You would hold your tray out for your breakfast dollop of oatmeal and they would give you a gigantic dollop of oatmeal. If you had food remaining on your tray there was a monitor at the garbage can when you bussed your trays and utensils, who sent you back to the table to finish your meal... I can attest that a lot of recruits walked out of that galley with oatmeal in their pockets because it was just easier that way.
I wish we could have gotten oatmeal. I knew the guy that worked up the menus and supervised at the chow hall and actually brought this up. He said we couldnt due to budgetary reasons. All we ever got stuck with was grits because they were at the time about half as much per serving. The more he spent on crap during the day the less there was to spend on the proteins at the end.
Looking at what we were fed compared to what I hear others complain about getting served I know he was making the right choices.