A study of 1,000 people in Israel found that when the same person eats the same meal on different days, the response is very similar. But when you give the same food to different people, the response can be dramatically different. People eating a eating bread, eating ice cream, having essentially no change in gluco's levels, and others having huge spikes in gluko's levels. Our genes are different, our microbium is different, so it would be even a miracle if we all responded the same way. The most novel component that we integrated was the microbium composition of people. And we showed that we could develop an algorithm that basically took many basic parometers,
To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about the food we eat, in this archive discussion from 2017, Intelligence Squared brought together some of the world’s leading experts on the science of human nutrition and health. Joining our host Dr Xand van Tulleken to pick apart food truths and myths were GP and broadcaster Sarah Jarvis, computational biologist Eran Segal, Professor of genetic epidemiology Tim Spector, and award-winning science and health writer Gary Taubes.
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