A research paper by scientists in Israel has unveiled that it is not necessary that if a diet plan is doing wonders for one person then it would do the same for another as well. It is because people metabolize the same food products in different manners.

Researchers Eran Elinav and Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute of Science said rather than suggesting the same diet plans to everyone, it would be better to recommend a personalized nutrition plan to people.

Segal said one of the factors that obesity rate is not going down is because that wrong advice was being passed to people to shed weight. In order to know how food is digested, the researchers enrolled 800 people and followed them for a week.

Participants were asked to report about anything they eat through a phone app. Their blood sugar levels were checked every five minutes through a device attached to their bodies. Their stool samples and blood tests were also taken.

Through this way, the researchers were able to know different effects of the same food on different people. After observing the entire data, both the researchers reached at a conclusion that all participants respond quite differently to foods.

In the next phase, the researchers 26 participants to check if their personalized nutritional advice could help reduce their blood sugar levels. It was found that they were able to lower blood sugar levels of the participants.