A Personalized Diet May Be In Your Future
What if a blood test could tell your doctor what type of diet could help you to lose weight, fight diabetes or reduce your chance of heart disease?
That’s what the field of metabolomics hopes to accomplish.
According to an article in Chemical & Engineering News, each of us responds to diet in a different way. So what may make me healthy may make you sick or vice versa.
Metabolomics studies how foods affect metabolism.
By analyzing the unique metabolic changes in your body, your doctor may be able to customize dietary guidelines to improve your health.
Researchers hope to develop a routine blood test to measure hundreds of compounds that affect your metabolism. This would help them to predict your future health problems.
After your doctor developed a personalized diet for you, he or she would do follow-up blood work to track the changes in your health.
It’s a potentially exciting development. But it’s too early to say goodbye to the Food Pyramid yet.
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