Diet, diets, dieting!
More than 1.2 billion people in the world are now officially classified as overweight, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to a report published in New England Journal of Medicine, in the next 50 years obesity in the United States is most likely to decrease people's average life expectancy by two to five years.
During 1980s and 1990s in the United States, adult obesity increased 50 per cent. Today, in the United States 28 per cent of men, 34 per cent of women, and nearly 50 per cent of non-Hispanic black women are obese.
Experts believe smoking and obesity are the two most significant cancer risk factors.
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While there is no guaranteed protection against developing cancer, a healthy diet and lifestyle have been shown to increase the chances of avoiding the disease.
There is a new field in the world of dieting. Metabolomics, or the analysis of all cellular metabolites, provides a powerful new tool for gaining insight into functional biology. Metabomics is all about personalized nutrition. Imagine a diet specialized to your personal nutritional requirements. Seen as a breakthrough in the treatment of obesity, metabomics creates a diet that is especially designed for you as an individual.
A diet can be complicated. For instance, on the same diet one person may lose weight, while another may actually gain weight. Still another may lose nothing at all. A diet can be a hit or a miss as to whether a specific diet works for you. In this new field of metabomics, you are what you eat. Research shows that metabolic testing offers a way to gauge health for a lifetime. It is designed to help people choose a diet and exercise program that is especially designed for them and their individual health and well-being.
This research is wonderful news for overweight people, as well as those suffering from obesity. By working with an individual's metabolism, a diet for life can be created just for them, ensuring weight loss and increased health. Scientists are now able to analyze metabolites in greater detail and are much more informed in this exciting new field of metabomics.
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