You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition

Re:You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition by woobar on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:06AM (#10858672)

All these factors are accounted for. I.e. in a controlled environment individual metabolic rate, weight, gender, etc will be measured.

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Re:You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition by HelloMcFly on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:30AM (#10858848)

What wouldn't likely be measured with any sort of accuracy is individual variance is gut microbiota, which I'd assume could lead to notable differences. Even so, I think we'd get more signal than noise doing our best to measure and factor out what we are currently able to.

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Re:You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition by biomcgary on Thursday January 07, 2016 @01:37PM (#10859784)

Sequencing to identify gut microbiota is now common in research. The general makeup of gut bacteria is relatively stable, so weekly or monthly sampling should be adequate.

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Re:You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition by DrScump on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:30PM (#10861653)

Microbiome, one of the most important factors, is not accounted for. Neither is genetics.

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