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DNA test 'could predict most effective diet
- billybob 17y ago"According to your DNA test, you need to eat less and exercise more. That'll be $5,000, please."
- JoeAltmaier 17y agoWhat control? Anybody taking part in a big important Stanford research project may be 2-3 times more likely to stick to their diet.
- alaithea 17y agoEveryone in the study was on a diet, but they put some people on the "wrong" diet for their genome. They were the control. The 2-3 times more weight lost was comparing those two groups in the study, not comparing to people outside of the study.
- binarymax 17y agoI wish I could recode my DNA to make pizza my ideal diet...
- mgrouchy 17y agoWhile that is a good wish, I wish I could make Beer part of my ideal diet.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agowouldn't it be easier to change your taste buds so that carrots taste like pizza?
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- tome 17y agoTechnology's all well and good, but couldn't trying both diets for a few weeks each lead to the same results for a lot less cost? If this DNA test is going to be useful to you, you actually do have to go on the diet at some point anyway!
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- albemuth 17y agoSo, basically you should go paleo, but that varies depending on what's your ascendance
- alaithea 17y agoI wish they had gone into what genetic markers got assigned to which diet types, but that might be a bit too much for the BBC. A quick search of Google Scholar is not turning up a likely candidate for the paper.