Are you a carbohydrate or a protein metabolic type?

April 12, 8:06 PMSacramento Nutrition ExaminerAnne Hart

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Is it a scientific fact, metabolic reality, common sense, or cultural practice that reports that eating a lot of meat by a metabolic-typed carbohydrate type person might turn to fat? Conversely, would eating mostly vegetables and fruits by a protein type person turn to fat?

The carbohydrate-type person may be a slow oxidizer of sugar but the protein-type person may be a fast oxidizer of sugar. (You can be tested to see whether sugar would hit the bloodstream faster, causing spikes in insulin perhaps due to insulin resistance or other causes.)

You may wish to read more information about metabolic typing diets on how to customize and tailor your diet to your body chemistry. See the book titled, The Metabolic Typing Diet. (Wolcott, William and Fahey, Trish. Random House, Inc. NY. 2000.) Further information on metabolic typing diets, may be found at the Web site of the organization, Healthexcel.

Would a nutrigenomics-oriented genetic test of specific markers give clues? Or would measuring the insulin response after eating sugar reveal sugar spikes that a fasting glucose blood test might not show on paper?

What’s out there to learn about dangerous eating, food misinformation, and healing foods? Is it true that one person’s dangerous foods are another person’s healing foods based on metabolic and genetic body types?

Is it true that specific foods turn into fuel for one person but become fat for another individual? If you'd like to check out that aspect, you'd probably start with the book, the Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wocott and Trish Fahey. It's a starting point to customize your diet to free yourself from food cravings.

The point of the book is to customize your diet to your own unique body chemistry, because your metabolism is unique due to genetic (hereditary) reasons. Start with the cutting-edge research that shows no one diet fits all metabolic types. Notice how many books on type there are?

Metabolic type, carbohydrate type, protein type, genotype, and personality type. Most books provide self-tests to discover your own type, be it metabolic or geno....The starting point is to look at the pioneers in metabolic research.