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You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. You are an ugly bag of mostly water, with mostly the same DNA as everyone else. Diet and exercise should be tailo
by tbrownaw 12y ago
You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. You are an ugly bag of mostly water, with mostly the same DNA as everyone else.
Diet and exercise should be tailored to what actually works (as should everything else; feedback loops are awesome). You don't find out what works uniquely for you by having some expert guess based on what your DNA makes very slightly more likely, you find out by trying and seeing if and how your results differ from what's typical or what you expected.
- gadders 12y agoI agree that there is some consensus on what works for exercise, but livestock breeders readily breed strains of animal to enhance he efficiency at which they convert food to weight on the hoof. If pigs or cows can vary as to how much weight they put on for the same input of food, surely humans can too?
- Igglyboo 12y agoWhy can't we use gene therapy and proven methodologies? For example if one diet works 5% better for people with condition X use that as opposed to another diet. It's not all or nothing.
- yarou 12y agoWhy would an expert have to "guess" when they have piles and piles of data? I think it's 100 years too early for you to reply to me.
- gwern 12y ago> You are an ugly bag of mostly water, with mostly the same DNA as everyone else. And yet, BMI is highly heritable (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=weight+OR+BMI+heritability+twin&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=weight+OR+BMI+heritabili...) so the 'mostly' is a pretty key qualifier.
- hackinthebochs 12y agoThe question is are you inheriting genes or memes?
- realitygrill 12y agoOr bacteria?