The personalized dietSegal, Eran (Computational biologist)
The personalized diet
by Segal, Eran (Computational biologist) · first published 2017
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"A paradigm-shifting diet book that explains why one-size-fits-all diets don't work and helps readers customize their diet to lose weight and improve health. There are certain things we take as universal truths when it comes to dieting and health: kale is good; ice cream is bad. Until now. When Drs. Segal and Elinav published their groundbreaking research on personalized nutrition, it created a media frenzy. They had proved that individuals react differently to the same foods--a food that might be healthy for one person is unhealthy for another. In one stroke, they made all universal diet prog
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Interestingly, peanut butter is near the bottom of the scale for being insulinogenic (the food insulin index). That means it's less likely to be put away as fat according to The Personalized Diet by Drs Segal and Elinav [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1478918802
on “Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria” ↗…Theoretically, if you eat things that don't raise your glucose too much you can lose weight. It sounds logical, but I don't know if it's really useful if you're not diabetic. Edit: the book is called "The Personalized Diet."
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