[ExI] A good diet for you may be bad for me

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Eating the same foods can lead to different blood sugar spikes in
different people
By  Tina Hesman Saey    November 19, 2015

<https://www.sciencenews.org/article/good-diet-you-may-be-bad-me>

Quote:
CARB CONFUSION  Participants in a nutrition study had very different
responses to eating certain foods. A cookie caused blood sugar levels
to spike for one person but didn’t affect a second person. A banana
produced the opposite reaction in the same people.

The researchers made the discovery after fitting 800 people with blood
glucose monitors for a week. The people ate standard breakfasts
supplied by the researchers. Although the volunteers all ate the same
food, their blood glucose levels after eating those foods varied
dramatically. Traits and behaviors such as body mass index, sleep,
exercise, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and the kinds of microbes
living in people’s intestines are associated with blood glucose
responses to food, the researchers conclude.

Those findings indicate that blood sugar spikes after eating depend
“not only on what you eat, but how your system processes that food,”
says Clay Marsh, an epigenetics researcher at West Virginia University
in Morgantown.
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They don't mention it, but I suspect ageing also affects how the body
processes food.


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