Diet disarray? Microbiome discovery complicates advice
21st January 2016
Recent revelations that the individual microbiome influences glycaemic response to food may complicate dietary advice.

THE paper has been universally described as a landmark publication and the research widely reported to have torpedoed the one-size-fits-all approach to diet.
Yet the work of a team of Israeli scientists, Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses, published late last year in Cell,1 continues to divide opinion on the long-established glycaemic index (GI)