title: Getting Personal About Nutrition.
abstract: Nutritional guidelines for maintaining healthy blood glucose levels are commonly portrayed as universally applicable. However, a new study now demonstrates that the impact of each food on blood glucose varies dramatically across individuals and largely depends on personal characteristics and gut microbiome properties, laying the foundation for the broad implementation of personalized nutrition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Noecker
authors.affiliation: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. Electronic address: elbo@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Elhanan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Borenstein
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D019518:Postprandial Period
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose