Why Fad Diets Work Well for Some, but Not Others

Crap.

Ever notice some people seem to eat anything they want and never gain a pound, while others seem to gain weight just by looking at fattening foods? You may be seeing things correctly after all. According to research published in the July 2010 issue of Genetics, this may have a biological cause. Using fruit flies, researchers have found that genes interacting with diet, rather than diet alone, are the main cause of variation in metabolic traits, such as body weight. This helps explain why some diets work better for some people than others, and suggests that future diets should be tailored to an individual's genes rather than to physical appearance.

Here is one reason why these researchers are wrong and one reason why they are crazy:

Wrong - all creatures in the known universe MUST lose weight when they consume fewer Calories than they burn. This is the Law of Thermodynamics and it holds true everywhere including with fat people.

Crazy - there are about 6,000,000,000 people on the planet. So far, it is believed that there are over 6,000 genes involved in weight control. Here you can calculate the number of ways just 6,000 things (not "over 6,000") can be combined. Here is the answer (I will post the number at the end of this blog entry. It is not unimpressive.):

The resulting factorial of 6,000! is 20,066 digits long.
The result also contains 1,498 trailing zeroes (which constitutes to (sic) 7.47% of the whole number)

This calculator expresses the result more clearly: "infinity."

This result does not take into account that there are at least two forms of each gene.

This more than doubles the result.

Recall that the smaller result was known as "infinity."

This does not include mutations, other variations, epigenetic considerations and yet to be discovered additional genes that are involved in weight control (and their mutations, other variations and epigenetic considerations).

Personalized weight loss? "...Diets...tailored to an individual's genes"? Piece of cake.

Not.

Clearly, these people are friggin' moonbats.

(As is this nut promising "personalized medicine.")

Just eat fewer Calories than you burn.

Here is the number for merely 6,000 gene combinations (less than half of the possibilities):

The resulting factorial of 6,000! is 20,066 digits long.
The result also contains 1,498 trailing zeroes (which constitutes to (sic) 7.47% of the whole number)

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