Are diet recommendations pointless?

Healthy diet varies from person to person
Do all people immediately react to food? Is there a possibility that the influence of food varies from person to person? This circumstance could explain why some people do not lose a gram despite expert diet plans. Affected then often wonder why they can not find any identifiable success, although they have followed all the advice and guidelines of the diet.

What is healthy for a person does not have to be healthy for other people. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute in Israel have now conducted a study on this topic and found that there is a large variance in the effect of food on different people. The results of this study were published by the researchers in the journal "Cell".

The same foods are metabolized differently by different people, which is why general diet plans make sense. (Image: BillionPhotos.com/fotolia.com)

Despite the same meal different metabolism
The study evaluated over a period of one week, the blood sugar level of 800 people. The result illustrated that even if everyone ate the same meal, their metabolism (metabolism) was different. Thus, it is clear that only an individual nutrition plan can help affected people, explained the heads of the investigation Eran Segal and Eran Elinav. Based on these findings, it should be recognized which foods help or hinder individuals in achieving their personal health goals. The physicians collected data including blood tests, stool samples, body measurements, health questionnaires and a mobile app. This app was used to record the lifestyle and food intake of subjects. They kept a kind of food diary in the app. In addition, the volunteers received some standardized, completely identical meals for their breakfast.

General diet plans are not really helpful
The type and amount of food that is healthy for individual people depends on many different factors. The most important factors include age and body mass index (BMI). The physicians took stool samples to understand why the effects were different, although the same type and amount of food was consumed. General diet plans would not really help people, Segal said in a statement. The results of the study proved that different people respond differently to the same diet. Thus, it is clear that diet plans make sense for some people, but do not work in other people. If different people follow the same diet plan, some would lose weight, but in other cases, those affected could even increase with the same diet. For some people, there was no change in their weight, researchers said in a statement.

Healthy foods can increase people
For example, in one case, a middle-aged woman with overweight and pre-diabetes (high blood sugar levels without diabetes) had spent her entire life trying to lose weight through diets. However, the affected person could never lose weight through such measures. The researchers found that their healthy diet had actually contributed to their problem. Whenever the woman consumed tomatoes, her blood sugar level jumped. For this person, an individual tailor made diet should therefore not contain tomatoes. However, the woman might be able to eat some other foods that would be unhealthy for many other people, added researchers from the Weizmann Institute.

Individual diet plans help you lose weight
To ensure that people achieve their goal of efficiently and effectively reducing weight, it is important that individual personal diet plans be created for each individual. Such a diet plan should be based on one's metabolism, age, weight, height and other personal factors, the researchers explain. (As)