The Metabolic Typing Diet

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I've discover this book : http://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Typing-Diet-Customize-Chemistry/dp/0767905644

Sound interesting because it can perhaps help to determine which diet type is good for each person.

Wolcott believes that tailoring your diet to your body's particular quirks--metabolic typing--will improve digestion, circulation, immunity, energy, and mood. To determine your type, he has you take a 65-question test (the questions range from nose moisture to how you feel about potatoes), then place yourself in one of three categories: protein type, carbo type, or mixed type.

The protein type is instructed to eat a diet that's 40 percent protein, 30 percent fat, and 30 percent carbs. The carbo type gets 60 percent carbs, 25 percent protein, and 15 percent fat. And the mixed type should consume 50 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 20 percent fat, although this type has to play with the ratios a little more to find the optimal mix.

Anybody have already experimented with it ?

 

[Gertrudes]

I've discover this book : http://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Typing-Diet-Customize-Chemistry/dp/0767905644

Sound interesting because it can perhaps help to determine which diet type is good for each person.

Wolcott believes that tailoring your diet to your body's particular quirks--metabolic typing--will improve digestion, circulation, immunity, energy, and mood. To determine your type, he has you take a 65-question test (the questions range from nose moisture to how you feel about potatoes), then place yourself in one of three categories: protein type, carbo type, or mixed type.

The protein type is instructed to eat a diet that's 40 percent protein, 30 percent fat, and 30 percent carbs. The carbo type gets 60 percent carbs, 25 percent protein, and 15 percent fat. And the mixed type should consume 50 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 20 percent fat, although this type has to play with the ratios a little more to find the optimal mix.

Anybody have already experimented with it ?

This goes hand in hand with Dr. Mercola's nutritional type diet. Actually, he fully endorses the book as explained here: _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/02/01/metabolic-typing-diet.aspx

I did the nutritional type test from Dr. Mercola's website some time ago. The test can be found in this link: _http://products.mercola.com/nutritional-typing/ at the bottom of the page, bellow a detailed explanation of the pros of understanding your nutritional type in order to adapt what you eat accordingly. After doing the test, you are given guidelines in what foods to eat and when, which is very helpful.

From the few things I read in Mercola's website I find that the concept of a nutritional type seems to make sense, although I have yet to read and research it more thoroughly. I haven't yet put his guidelines into practice because at the time I did the test I was also starting with the Ultra Simple Diet and many of the foods suggested were not included in the first stages of the diet.
Having read your post now reminded me of it, I might do the test again and try the diet he suggests.

 

[Ollie]

Having done the USD and slowly reintroduced foods, on the second time round, I compared them with Mercola's nutritional types and found that I spanned all three types - ok with some and not with others in each of the types. It really does come down to the individual and what is sensitive for them and what is ok. On that basis, the USD and elimination diet is the only sensible way to go, as you get what is unique to you.

 

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Thanks for your inside Gertrudes. The Mercola page is in my toread list but I did not link the book with it!

Having done the USD and slowly reintroduced foods, on the second time round, I compared them with Mercola's nutritional types and found that I spanned all three types - ok with some and not with others in each of the types. It really does come down to the individual and what is sensitive for them and what is ok. On that basis, the USD and elimination diet is the only sensible way to go, as you get what is unique to you.

So, perhaps the Mercola's nutritional types is useful for the ratio of food determined by the USD. There's also the blood type diet to be eventually put in the equation...

 

[Ollie]

Thanks for your inside Gertrudes. The Mercola page is in my toread list but I did not link the book with it!

Having done the USD and slowly reintroduced foods, on the second time round, I compared them with Mercola's nutritional types and found that I spanned all three types - ok with some and not with others in each of the types. It really does come down to the individual and what is sensitive for them and what is ok. On that basis, the USD and elimination diet is the only sensible way to go, as you get what is unique to you.

So, perhaps the Mercola's nutritional types is useful for the ratio of food determined by the USD. There's also the blood type diet to be eventually put in the equation...

You can take Mercola's nutritional type test online - I did - to determine if you are Protein, Veggie, or Mixed type. I came out as Veggie, yet through testing I can eat most of the Mixed and Veggie types as well as lots on the Protein chart.

I was eating to the Blood type diet before my last USD session, again this, Blood type diet, is blown out of the water in terms of what I can eat not eat, through individually testing foods. :)