Why fad diets work well for some, but not others

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 07/27/2010 - 22:00

(Genetics Society of America) 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.

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