What's your take on Jillian Michaels' oxidizer diet classifications?
Asked by despinamb on Oct 08, 2009
in Weight Loss
Jillian Michaels is advocating the fast/slow/balanced oxidizer diet classification.
Answer
Jillian Michaels' premise - that some people are fast oxidizers or slow oxidizers based on their rates of converting food into energy - is without scientific merit. Her diet is a hodgepodge of scientific information taken out of context and presented so as to mystify and confuse. Jillian’s diets work because calorie intake is reduced and calorie output (from exercise) is increased. While an individual may feel better or worse eating particular foods, there is no test to identify differences in metabolism or foods to correct a presumed imbalance. Even people with impaired glucose tolerance due to overeating and under-exercising cannot be slotted into some oxidation category.
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