Low-fat or low-carb, which one do you prefer? Which one works best for you? Do you even know? Well you’re in luck if you don’t; a new study revealed that a genetic test can help people choose which diet is more effective in helping them lose weight. The study followed 133 overweight women for a year. All the women “with a genetic predisposition to benefit from a low-carbohydrate diet lost 2 1/2 times as much weight as those on the same diet without the predisposition,” reports Ron Winslow from The Wall Street Journal. Also, women with a “genetic makeup that favored a low-fat diet lost substantially more weight than women who curbed fat calories without low-fat genes,” says Winslow.
This genetic test is based on variations in three genes that regulate how the body metabolizes fat and carbohydrates. Christopher Gardner, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford, says, “Knowing your genotype for low-carb or low-fat diets could help you increase your weight-loss success.”
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