Personalized diet may be the healthier choice
By Kate Murphy, New York Times
In what has come to feel like a twice-a-decade mea culpa, the federal government last week released another revision of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this time urging many of us to consume less sugar and less protein. The new recommendations may well influence nutrition labeling, school lunches and government assistance programs.
But the advice is likely to be ignored by much of the I’ll-have-fries-with-that citizenry. Moreover, recent scientific findings are beginning to lend support to a new approach to diet, one personalized to the individual.
Research increasingly suggests that each of us is unique in the way we absorb and metabolize nutrients. This dawning realization has scientists, and entrepreneurs, scrambling to provide more effective nutritional advice based on such distinguishing factors as genetic makeup, gut bacteria, body type and chemical exposures.
Reading this article, while it makes sense in its initial concept, it seems far more likely to spawn a few more ways to lose your money buying questionable advice that is largely common sense.
Another way to use computers to crunch data which has yet to be thoroughly vetted. The culture still largely believes that if it comes from a computer it must be right.
Is this just another version of the well known “male member enlargement” magic pill industry?