For $149 you can get a DNA test that will tell you how your body reacts to certain foods, and provide you with diet recommendations to help you lose weight and keep it off.
Basically, the test checks for three things:
- How much fat from you absorb from your diet.
- How your body metabolizes carbohydrates, and
- How you respond to exercise.
Does anybody want to guess where this is going?
The recommendations from this test don’t seem to be much different than advice you might read here at this blog or hundreds of others like it. And I can assure you that you won’t have to pay me $149 (though if you want to, I won’t refuse it).
According to several sources (Fitness Tech Examiner, CBS4.com), the recommendations from the test are not all that different from simply following the governments dietary guidelines.
Both articles cited above use Amy Katsis as an example. After struggling with many diets, she took the DNA test. The recommendation?
Reduce carbs, more exercise.
Interestingly, the president of Inherent Health (the DNA testing company) had this to say (from the CBS4.com article):
It’s not a magic diet. It is in fact an indication. A very clear indication of how an individual’s body works with certain foods and not with others… The test told me that I would benefit from a reduced carbohydrate diet. [emphasis mine]
Hmmm, a reduced carbohydrate diet. I am going to go out on a limb and say that most results are likely to recommend a lower carb or lower fat diet. And more exercise.
Why?
Because it works. But we already knew that, didn’t we?
In fact, quoting from the CBS4.com article,
Joan Salge Blake is a registered dietitian and author of “Nutrition and You.” She said the number of obese Americans has doubled since 1980, and that’s not simply a question of genetics. “What has changed is our environment, our lifestyle, the way we eat,” Blake said.
Better diet, more exercise. That is at the core of everything you have read from Build-Muscle-and-Burn-Fat.com and this blog. And it cost you much less than $149.
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