by Andrew Simmons

Created on: January 30, 2011   Last Updated: March 26, 2011

Most of us want to lose weight so we can not only look good, but to stay away from health conditions that are associated with being overweight and live a healthy life. Don’t you sometimes wonder that how some people find it quite easy to lose weight and start to see results within a week, while others following the same diet plan can have little or no results even after weeks and months. This can be attributed to the recent discovery of how a person’s metabolic type can influence the results of weight loss for someone who is following a particular diet plan. Looking at reasons to how one particular diet works for someone but fails for another, and how two people who eat the same amount and type of food do not have the same weight gain, nutritionist and health experts have been trying hard to provide explanations.

 After much research, the body’s metabolic type was recognized as the key factor that will make a diet work for a person and makes sense of all the diverse effects a particular diet can have on different people. A metabolism typing diet is a diet that is suitable for your body’s metabolic type. It is a made to order diet that is right for you.  Your metabolic type can be determined by answering a simple self test questionnaire.  This certainly is good news for people who just can’t seem to lose weight with regular diet plans. Now you can lose weight  without the guess work.

Our body’s genetic make up defines which foods our body can absorb and digest easily. It is due to this reason that how a particular healthy food, might not have the desired effect on your body. While eating a cheesy pizzas and ice cream might have more of a bad effect on your body than it would on another metabolic body type. The way your body responds to the foods you consume can be connected to your body’s metabolic type. Following a diet that is not right for your metabolic type can have an adverse effect on your body, as your body might not receive the required nutrients to function normally. This is another reason why certain diets have caused health complications in certain people.

People can be categorized into 3 main metabolic types.

Protein types - They burn or oxidise carbohydrates quickly and must eat more protein and fat to slow this process. Protein types also have a higher requirement for purines, which is a type of amino acid found in dark meats, like red meat, chicken legs and anchovies.. They tend to

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