Study Reveals No Diet Good for Everyone

Food Health Wellness

Millions of Americans are currently on some kind of diet. I believe there are as many different diet plans as there are makes of cars and probably more than the 200 plus Democrats who have expressed an interest in running for the White House in 2020.

If your family or friends know that you are on a diet or looking to go on a diet, they all have their favorite diets and often will try to push you to get on the diet that worked for them.

What’s worse is when people you know or work with come up to you and tell you that you should go on a diet without realizing that your weight could be caused by a health condition. That’s been the case with my oldest daughter who has a pituitary tumor that has been secreting excess growth hormones, causing her to gain weight and even grow an inch and half in height in her mid-30s. They may mean well, but their comments are often insulting and hurtful, so please, don’t tell someone they need to go on a diet unless you know all of the circumstances.

Currently, a bunch of ladies at my church are all on the same diet – no sugars, no bad carbs, very little fats, etc. over the past year, several have tried to urge me and my daughter to go on the same diet. I try to politely tell them that not everyone responds to the same diet in the same manner and that one diet is not necessarily good for everyone.

However, they still firmly believe that their diet plan is the best and continue to push others to ‘get on the same wagon’.

In the past couple of months, my daughter has been put on several different diets by doctors and some familiar with her condition. She was put on a cancer diet, a no sugar, no carb, no dairy diet and has now been placed on a red meat diet because she is anemic.

You see diets advertised on television all the time and they claim to give everyone the same results, but is that realistic?

Not according to a recent study:

“But new research says this kind of one-size-fits-all approach may not cut it. Different people, even identical twins (who have nearly the exact same DNA), may respond to the same foods very differently, the researchers found—complicating decades of weight-loss and health advice, and potentially leaving consumers with more questions than answers.”

“‘Our recommendations, medically and public-health wise, have just been assuming that if people follow the standard plan, they’ll lose weight’ and develop fewer chronic diseases, says study co-investigator Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London. ‘Really, that thinking has now been exposed as completely flawed’.”

“The study’s results were presented Monday at the American Society of Nutrition conference, and have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Researchers tracked about 1,100 U.S. and U.K. adults, including 240 pairs of twins, for two weeks. They monitored participants’ blood sugar, insulin and fat levels after they ate pre-formulated meals like muffins and glucose drinks; tested the microbes living in their guts; and tracked their sleep and exercise.”

Bottom line – no diet is right for everyone and you should remember that before trying to push your favorite diet on others, even family members. You can recommend a diet, but don’t get pushy or insist they try it. Everyone is different, even identical twins, so what works for you may not work for anyone else and vice versa.

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