What is personality diet?

Question
Do you support this approach? Doesn't every human body work the same way? It is my impression that our medicine ignore any personality traits and does very well without. Am I wrong?

Answer
Dear Jonas,

I agree and disagree with you regarding Western medicine. Agree in the part that it ignores personality traits but strongly disagree that it is doing very well. It does indeed in the areas where our bodies work rather like mechanisms. It does its best in emergency and surgery, and with severe infections.

However, I can not see it doing sufficiently well when the matter concerns more subtle things, on which the optimal health and well-being are based. Some aspects of body weight regulation belongs to this category.

Because, should we all be tube-fed with liquid tasteless balanced "food" and our energy expenditure was under firm control, etc., then, probably, there would be no need in taking personality into account.

But we are "free-range" fed and engaged in all kind of activities, and have all kinds of food preferences, etc., so our eating behavior is a personal trait. Logically, it should influence the way we control (or fail controlling) our body weight.

I am not that much experienced in this field but I can recommend you to take a diet personality test and see what happens. You can access it here:

http://dietandbody.com/updates/nfblog/?page_id=196

Hope it helps,

Tanya Zilberter, PhD

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