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Transtlate BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Diet not working? A new test claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan, according to media reports Thursday.
According to Associated Press, a study this week found that women on diets well-matched to their genes, as defined by the test, lost roughly five times more weight than those on mismatched diets.
"We were able to explain why some people were successful" and others were not, even though they ate the same way, said Mindy Dopler Nelson, a nutritional biologist at Stanford University who led the study.
While some scientists find this hard to swallow, it's another test being peddled without enough research to show it really works, it said.
"I'm afraid this may be another attempt to lure the public into purchasing genetic tests that provide little value for those struggling with their weight," said Raymond Rodriguez, director of the National Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis.
The research shows "nothing that should move the American public out to get their genome tested," said Dr. Robert Eckel, a former American Heart Association president and cardiologist at the University of Colorado-Denver.
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