Of all the millions, if not billions, of web searches being carried out across the net every day, there are approximately 54 looking for this quite spectacular string of words: the metabolic typing diet customize your diet to your own unique body chemistry
It was the word chemistry, that brought it to near the top of a recent keywords trawl I was carrying out to help find new topics to offer visitors to the Chemspy site.
Turns out to be a book. I should’ve guessed, why else would so many people search on such a specific string of words. You can buy it here.
The book’s blurb explains the gist of author, William Linz Wolcott’s diet theory: “People are unique in more ways than we can see. Stomachs and other internal organs come in many different shapes and sizes. Digestive juices, too, can vary dramatically from one person to another…it stands to reason that different foods have very different effects on different people.”
Wolcott believes that tailoring your diet to your body’s particular chemistry – 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.
Sounds like this will have great potential for those who really cannot bring themselves to let go of the remote control, get up off the sofa and do some exercise. Once they realise it doesn’t actually work for them (usually takes about two weeks for that to happen), this tome will be find its slot on the book shelf alongside Atkins, Cabbage, and F…