Unravel epicurean genes to let us all eat healthily

• Autores: Catherine de Lange
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2972, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Last week, Nicola Pirastu at the University of Trieste, Italy, and his colleagues told the European Society of Human Genetics meeting in Milan that diets tailored to genes that are related to metabolism can help people lose weight. The team used the results of a genetic test to design specific diets for 100 obese people that also provided them with 600 fewer calories than usual. A control group was placed on a 600-calorie deficit, untailored diet. After two years, both groups had lost weight but those in the nutrigenetic group lost 33 per cent more. They also took only a year to lose as much weight as the group on the untailored diet lost in two years.