Are You a Carb or Fat Person?

There seems to be two types of people – those that survive well on carbs and those that survive well on fats. So how are we to know who we are unless we keep track of everything we eat and somehow manage to figure out which causes us to gain weight. Did I mention that if you eat the wrong foods you are going to get fat? Well you are.

Reuters science section informs us that Interleukin has a new genetic test to reveal which type of genes we have that affect metabolism.

“The potential of using genetic information to achieve this magnitude of weight loss without pharmaceutical intervention would be important in helping to solve the pervasive problem of excessive weight in our society,” Christopher Gardner at Stanford University in California, who worked on the study, said in a statement.

Massachusetts-based Interleukin’s $149 test looks for mutations in three genes, known as FABP2, PPARG and ADRB2.

The company says 39 percent of white Americans have the low-fat genotype, 45 percent have the type that responds best to a diet low in processed carbohydrates and an unlucky 16 percent have gene mutations that mean they have to watch both fat and processed carbohydrates.