PHOTO: GETTY IMAGESFor decades, nutritionists and scientists have been debating whether weight loss is down to sheer will power and healthiness of diet, or whether maintaining a healthy weight is down to your genes. Further, in an article in Nature Food, they say that for different people, urine contains different patterns of chemicals suggesting that we each have a unique response to diet. "Some individuals were more responsive to diet than others, regardless of whether the diet was healthy or not," Prof Nicholson said. "Based on the metabolic response to the four different diets, we were able to create a model that can predict the healthiness of a person’s diet," Prof Holmes said. "This model will provide a framework for developing precision nutrition programmes aimed at healthy weight loss or maintenance."

Source: Otago Daily Times June 21, 2020 15:22 UTC