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

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:05 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> BillK
>
> ​And it doesn't help that the gut bacteria may take up to a year to
recover from antibiotics, which are still too routinely given.  And if you
take probiotics you may be changing your gut population continuously.  bill
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