ManyPeople who want to lose weightwonder what “the perfect diet for me” is. However, the results of a new study point out that there is no optimal diet that is suitable for every metabolism or body type. According to the researchers, who have examined some effects of genetics, microbioma and lifestyle factors for metabolism, people react so self -willfully to food that everyone needs an individual nutrition plan.
Is the perfect diet an illusion?
During the study, 1102 healthy people died with identical meals for two weeks. Then the scientists measured their metabolic reactions. These were very different, differentiated with up to ten times. This could mean that onehealthy eatingdoes not have the same effect for every person and can even be unhealthy. According to the study manager, Tim Spector from King's College London, every body type reacts differently to identical foods. He and his colleagues measured the content of glucose, insulin and triglycerides in the blood of the subjects. The high values of all three after eating proved to be a risk factor for obesity, while people who have high triglyceride and glucose values after eating are more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
The team also pursued the sleep, movement and hunger levels of the volunteers and took stool samples to examine the intestinal microbes. Spector, who is also a geneticist, expected to find a strong genetic component for the metabolic reactions. In fact, however, he found very little of it. The study participants included several couples of identical twins, but even they reacted very differently to the same meal. For this reason, the researchers came to the conclusion that genes do not play a major role for the perfect diet.
Study results
For example, according to the researcher, how people's microbiom reacts to fatty meals has practically no genetic component. In addition, the team found that only about 30Percent of immune responsesare genetically due to glucose. Other factors such as intestinal microbes,circadian rhythmAs well as sleep and movement are more important, says Spector.
The time of meals also plays an important role. Some people metabolize food better in the morning, while others saw no difference in their ability to process food during the day. This indicates that it would be more effective to develop a tailor -made health program for individuals than to recommend the perfect diet.
So the results can be surprising. The researcher announced that he had eaten sandwiches with tuna and sugar corn for years. He thought they were good for him, but recently found that his metabolism reacted very badly. Spector and his team have also developed a tool with artificial intelligence with which people can be predicted on foods based on their genes, intestinal microbes, movement and sleep patterns as well as the metabolic reactions on food. A company based in Great Britain called Zoe has made it a consumer test and smartphone app that will be introduced in the United States next month and later this year in Great Britain.
So there is still a lot to do to fully understand the individual reactions to food. TheStudy resultsHowever, are impressive and will shape nutritional science in the future.
