Human nutrition is precisely individualized. This attribute of nutrition science is what fascinates me the most. Surely, you have those few friends who devour everything they get their skinny hands on. Conversely, there are also the friends who count every calorie and bounce from South Beach to Mediterranean diet to Paleo.
The bottom line is that what works for me likely doesn’t work for you and vice versa of course. Mostly, we have control over our metabolic manifestation. To a small degree however, our health and body type are based on genetics, environment, our childhood, and individual metabolic differences.
The element of individual differences is especially curious. I observed a presentation this summer about blood type dieting. This is really logical, right? Blood type is largely based on ancestry. So, it makes sense that if certain foods had different metabolic effects on our ancestors, they should therefore relate to our blood types respectively.
I came across a meta-analysis from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This study explored the legitimacy of this concept. After reviewing sixteen selectively screened studies on the topic, literally no evidence was found to support health outcomes based on adherence to foods by blood type.
Seriously?! If science can't account for the unique differences on how we use energy from food, it must then surely be based on astrology!
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/98/1/99.full
The bottom line is that what works for me likely doesn’t work for you and vice versa of course. Mostly, we have control over our metabolic manifestation. To a small degree however, our health and body type are based on genetics, environment, our childhood, and individual metabolic differences.
The element of individual differences is especially curious. I observed a presentation this summer about blood type dieting. This is really logical, right? Blood type is largely based on ancestry. So, it makes sense that if certain foods had different metabolic effects on our ancestors, they should therefore relate to our blood types respectively.
I came across a meta-analysis from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This study explored the legitimacy of this concept. After reviewing sixteen selectively screened studies on the topic, literally no evidence was found to support health outcomes based on adherence to foods by blood type.
Seriously?! If science can't account for the unique differences on how we use energy from food, it must then surely be based on astrology!
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/98/1/99.full