Human DNA Linked To Good Diet

A doctor has been researching and doing studies on the link between our DNA and genetic makeup and our diet and what we should be eating for the best health. Doctor Mark Hyman has written a number of diet books that focus on the need to get out metabolisms working at peak efficiency so that we burn more calories than we eat. Dr. Hyman claims that his recent research will show us how we are able to boost the fat burning metablisms that are inside all of us.

Thousands of years ago what we ate was very different to what we eat today and even though our bodies will have adapted slightly to these changes we have not changed to the extent where we can handle many modern diet patterns. The research has shown that certain foods can boost our metabolic rate and therefore help us to burn off our calorie faster. It is also apparent that different people have different dietary needs and requirements and this must be taken into account when dieting. The idea that one diet will work for everyone fails to consider the differences in people's genes and lifestyles.

Doctor Hyman in his diet books look into the different genetic structures of dieters and advises people how to lose weight based on their own individual diet plans. He argues that our bodies are all unique and therefore some require different amounts of certain food stuffs to increase our metabolic rate so that we become better fat burners. The overall idea is create a highly tuned digestive metabolism which allows you to eat healthily without starving yourself.

The research takes into account that up until recent times the vast majority if people in the world spent most of their time finding and making food and it was not available in great abundance like it is today. This meant that our bodies and our genes were tuned to absorbing all the goodness and benefits from the food we ate. Today with an over supply of food in many countries our bodies are unable to process the excess food and we become overweight and obese. It seems that we need a few more thousand years for our digestive systems to catch up and evolve and to modern diet habits.