Nearly two third of Australian are either overweight or obese, even more astonishing one in three has try diet annually.
There are three types of popular diets but are they beneficial as some people claimed? Director of my-DNA, Doctor Lior Rauchberger said that 29% of Australian try diets and fail to loose weight after they stop the diets.
Low carbohydrate high fats (LCHF) is a diet that mostly focus on "low carbohydrate, moderate protein, higher healthy fat diet", said Dr. Rod Tayler.
As Paleo diet is known as the "Caveman diet" which consume meat from grass eating, vegetables, fruits, nuts, berries and roots vegetables.
And Atkins Diet also promotes low-cab, meat, full cream milk, nuts, seeds and fatty seafood, eggs and non-starchy vegetables.
Dr. Rod Tayler an anesthetist said Low-cab diet help him lose weight and stay healthy and keep him away from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Though, Aloysa Hourigan a senior nutritionist from Nutrition Australia said though all three diets i.e, Paleo, Atkins and Low carbohydrate high fats (LCHF) focus on the whole foods and avoiding processed foods, due to the limited carbohydrate and calcium, these food might not be able to keep people healthy or loose weight.
However, Dr Lior Rauchberger from my-DNA said that nevertheless, testing DNA might be the solution to find the suitable diet for specific people to deal with this issue. Because from testing our genes, they can tell us what contribute to people's weight gain, or what reasons that make it hard for people to loose weight, or how that person's body process carbohydrate, or store fats and will the fats cause health problem to that person. So by testing and understanding our genes, we might be able to organize specific type of diets that suit that person specifically instead of trial and error.
In additional to this, ANZAC Research Institute 2014 research also indicated that high-protein diets may cause health problems like high blood pressure, diabetes, and shorter life span. And Aloysa Hourigan adds that consuming more red meat might increase the chances of bowel cancer as well as other digestive disorders.
Nutritionist Aloysa Hourigan said that people with chronic disease should consult with their doctors before changing their diets.
Listen to the full interview with my-DNA director Dr. Lior Rauchberger and what are the reasons behind our widening waistline here:
Liten to SBS's Insight three part documenatry about The Obesity Myth which screened the first part on 04/09/2017, second part on 11/09/2017 and the last part on 18/09/2017 at 7:30pm on SBS and On Demand.
