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This research has been around for 30 years. There was one case in the 70's where obese adults were given controlled calculated diets in a hospital and one of th

This research has been around for 30 years. There was one case in the 70's where obese adults were given controlled calculated diets in a hospital and one of them gained weight anyway as her gut flora was so good at extracting nutrients. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/05/10/3212802.htm http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/05/10/3212802.ht... Edit: Here's another link I found in one of my old comments from a week or two ago: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17183312 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17183312

draven 14y ago
Could it be that varied diets could prevent us (our intestinal bacteria) from getting too good at digesting a specific diet then?
crusso 14y ago
Yeah, and Atkins was talking about the insulin response in the 1970's... but he was mostly ignored (if not ridiculed) by the research community. The GP was entirely correct in stating that nutrition research has been "screwed up".