Metabolic Typing
Metabolic Typing is an alternative medical teaching of the individual metabolic types. Each person has their own metabolic type, which has a different need for protein , carbohydrates , fat and micro-nutrients. The American doctor William Donald Kelley (1925-2005) ( The Metabolic Types, One Answer To Cancer ) and the non-fiction author William Linz Wolcott ( The Metabolic Typing Diet ) are the authors of the theory. Wolcott is owned by Healthexcel Inc. , which offers books, courses and other metabolic typing products. Scientific publications have not yet been submitted.
The classification recognizes several metabolic types. These are said to result from imbalances in the autonomic nervous system (“ parasympathetic type”, “ sympathetic type”) or from differences in the energy metabolism of the body cells (“beta type”, “glycotype”). Metabolic Typing claims that health can be achieved and maintained with a type-appropriate diet. General nutritional and diet recommendations, for example in favor of fresh fruit and vegetables, are questioned by the followers of metabolic typing .
The Bavarian consumer center criticized such methods: "So far there is no scientific evidence for the existence of certain metabolic types and conclusions about nutrition".
literature
- Wolcott, Fahey: The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet To: Free Yourself from Food , Broadway Books, place of publication 2002, ISBN 0767905644 .
- Wolcott, Fahey: Essen, what my body needs , translated by Peter Königs, VAK Verlags GmbH, place of publication, year of publication, ISBN 9783935767088 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Healthier and leaner with your personal metabolism program? ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from the Bavarian Consumer Center .
