A journalist who specializes in articles on health and nutrition wonders in this article whether genetic diet, genedieta or a dietary DNA exist. That is: is it true that genes can influence the way we gain weight or three thousand calories give everyone a belly? When we say that some foods are bad for us (and we fear they will make us fat) and others lose weight, are we talking about DNA-driven behaviors or whims? It is on questions of this kind that the genetic approach to diet has made great strides: DNA tests that provide us with an ideal diet, perhaps with a list of foods that we can eat to our fill without gaining weight. You think you are genetically predisposed to chocolate.To the lasagna. Eating trays of eggplant parmigiana in front of friends, saying it’s all a genetic fact. Who knows, maybe there are people who get fat on celery.

Actually having a dietary approach that takes into account our DNA at the moment seems to have very little to do with weight loss, but with the idea that if Dude finds out with a DNA test that he does not assimilate certain nutrients well and has a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease, a specific diet will include less cholesterol, so to speak. For example, it seems that the fact that coffee acts on the metabolism is also a genetic problem: it makes some people particularly alert and on some subjects it only hurts. Or the fat metabolism may be a genetic fact. Or the assimilation of vitamin B. In short, we are talking about factors that are somewhat marginal with respect to weight loss. Important for health, of course. But at the moment, even this article would confirm what I have already told you about genedieta, the genetic diet, the g diet and the like: they don’t work! It is very difficult to create a dietary profile based on our genetic make-up, and science still struggles. It seems confirmed that we lose weight in a similar way, but not the same and that we all need the same things in our diet. Sorry for those who expect the results of a genetic test from Greenland that will not change their life, or at least not their waistline. The eggplant parmigiana gene has not yet been discovered, no “double helix” would make you lose weight if you ate supplì.