Thanks for posting this, wrong-headed and superficial report that it is.
For the record, I was just reading in Dr. Fung's
Obesity Code that, as a matter of integrity, he rejects mouse experiments attempting to prove stuff about people.
And any article that serves up the old CI/CO mantra lacks credibility.
All that said, I agree completely that different diets can work very well for different people. This article cites the indigenous diets (and by that I mean everyday dietary patterns) in other countries that work well for them.
When it comes to
weight reduction diets, there again, different diets work well for different people. Many of us here have had success (over and over and over??--if that could be called success!) on many different diets. If the so-called Western diet (not a reducing diet, but an everyday pattern) had not devolved to Doritos and Diet Coke, then it might still be as healthy as it was up until, say, the 1950s when we all got excited about not eating fat and started eating massive amounts of sugar instead.
Oh--my soapbox is rising higher and higher!
So, as always, there's confusion of terms and confounded results.
IMHO, you could describe any healthy diet something like this:
--fresh foods only (preferably produced in a healthful manner), nothing processed or manufactured or (simply put) with an Ingredients list
--eat when hungry, eat only when hungry
--eliminate added sugars, caloric beverages
Within that framework, you can eat to suit yourself, and help your body find its way to its natural weight (which might not match some social prejudice) and better health.
Whether or not a diet works may be in your genes
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