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Ground-Breaking Weight Loss Plan Draws Skepticism from Scientists

A group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen have proposed a revolutionary diet plan that is personalized for individuals based on their blood sugar levels to help them shed excess weight.

Under this nutrition plan, the researchers classify individuals under categories A, B and C depending on their chances of developing diabetes and personalizing a diet plan that is best suited to their health for optimal weight loss. Many experts, however, are extremely skeptical of the merits of the research findings and remain unconvinced due to a lack of medical proof.

A group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen have proposed a new diet plan for individuals customized according to their blood sugar levels

A Revolution in Weight Loss Nutrition?

The individuals are first subjected to a blood test which illustrates their overall physical health, enabling doctors to provide a comprehensive diet plan that not only facilitates weight loss but also helps to sustain it. According to the researchers at Copenhagen University, many people who aspire to lose weight stick to a specific type of diet which puts them at risk of actually gaining weight whereas the weight loss nutrition plan devised by the university claims to speed up the process of weight loss by up to six or seven times!

The nutrition plan is based on a research project carried out by the university under which the participants were classified into six different groups and subjected to vastly different forms of healthy food with the results being closely monitored. A number of nutritional strategies were employed in this study including restricted calorie intake, varying the carbohydrate and fat content and varying the fiber content in the diet plan.

During this time the researchers noticed that the blood sugar levels of the subjects proved to be detrimental in the types of diet best suited for them. People with type-2 diabetes or high levels of blood sugar for example, benefited greatly through healthy fats like olive oil, nuts and avocados which were instrumental in their weight loss.

An Effective Weight Loss Plan?

According to Professor Mads Fill at the University of Copenhagen, an effective weight loss regime can be devised by sticking with a fiber rich diet without any restriction on the calorie intake which shall prove to be extremely beneficial for people with high blood sugar. The professor further adds that if you also monitor your carbohydrate and fats intake base on your blood insulin level, your chances of losing weight are dramatically increased and your chances of developing diabetes will reduce drastically.

This new breakthrough demolishes the worldwide belief of the “one size fits all” approach when it comes to weight loss and nutrition and promotes a more personalized approach towards effective weight loss. This plan also helps to prevent or restrict the development of various blood related medical conditions including type-2 diabetes.

These research findings might prove to be revolutionary in the fight against diabetes and weight gain since both of these conditions are prevailing worldwide with almost 35 percent of the population in the US being obese or overweight! The number of diabetes patients has also doubled in the past 10 years. According to the American Diabetes Association, 1.4 million people are diagnosed with diabetes every year.

Almost 35 per cent of the U.S. population is overweight whereas the number of diabetic patients has also doubled over the past decade

A Skeptical Proposition

Despite the research findings, many doctors and scientists remain skeptical of the proposed diet plans citing that there is a lack of evidence that would provide medical legitimacy to the claims along with a lack of accuracy in research methodology. For a start, when individuals are classified in to three groups according to their blood sugar levels, their chances of developing diabetes are estimated roughly and therefore not accurate enough to make the research findings accurate.

Furthermore, scientists claim that for a “personalized” plan, merely classifying individuals into three groups and personalizing the nutrition according to the three groups (A, B and C) hardly makes it a personalized diet at all, as claimed by the university.

Finally experts also point towards the uncertainty in blood sugar levels, the foundation of this groundbreaking study; blood sugar levels are always fluctuating depending on the time of day, personal activity and dietary habits and normally patients are subjected to numerous blood tests over a period of time to determine their blood sugar levels accurately which provides inconsistency a lack of accuracy to these study findings in which the participants were subjected to only one blood test that would not be sufficient to accurately illustrate their blood sugar levels at all!

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