Why 'eating what works for you' may end up being the best

shaumom

Just an interesting study - which has not yet had time to be explored further - showing that it is never as simple as 'eat this, and it does this.'

Turns out, people's bodies metabolize the food we eat quite differently, and very individually. The study took only a few quantitative measurements, like blood sugar levels after eating, and these were pretty clearly not the same across the population they tested. Might explain why so many times, someone will have great results on one diet, and another person will do so poorly on it.

"...the data also revealed that different people show vastly different responses to the same food, even though their individual responses did not change from one day to another.

"Most dietary recommendations that one can think of are based on one of these grading systems; however... there are profound differences between individuals--in some cases, individuals have opposite response to one another, and this is really a big hole in the literature," says Segal, of Weizmann's Department of Computer Science and Applied Math.

"Measuring such a large cohort without any prejudice really enlightened us on how inaccurate we all were about one of the most basic concepts of our existence, which is what we eat and how we integrate nutrition into our daily life," says Elinav, of Weizmann's Department of Immunology. "In contrast to our current practices, tailoring diets to the individual may allow us to utilize nutrition as means of controlling elevated blood sugar levels and its associated medical conditions." "



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119133230.htm

Need2Exerc1se

Seems like common sense, doesn't it? But apparently not so common.