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Saturday, December 6, 2008
What foods are good for you is dependent on who you are.
A large study "with volunteers from across Europe" has shown that your specific genetics determines what type of diet is good for you. Basically, some people do just fine on a high saturated fat diet (the supposedly bad kind; the example given is Irish food), and do not have the expected health improvements when put on a low saturated fat diet (the Mediterranian diet). So eat, drink, and be merry, 'cause who knows what's going on? Me? I'm off for more sausages.
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Some people with ADD, for example, do much better with a low carbohydrate diet, others do much better with a diet that stresses carbohydrates -- depending on genetics.
We are finally starting to really appreciate that we are not all the same.
Now that so many of us are such "hybrids", it will take a lot of individual experimentation to determine what works. I think I'll try that donut.
(I suspect that broccoli is better for me however. Harrumph.)
Broccoli and me sworn enemies!
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