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Have you ever jumped onto a new diet fat that promises weight loss but instead of giving you the results, it makes you feel worse? Scientists have an explanation for why you were gaining weight on a diet when you should be actually losing it. According to Israeli researchers who published a journal this week in Cell found out that different bodies respond to food differently. Which means that while a diet may help your friend significantly, it may not have even the slightest impact on you. Lead authors, Eran Segal and Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute of Science studied the key component of the diet plans that are supposedly balanced such as Atkins, South Beach and Zone. The Glycemic index or the GI is the measure that ascertains how the blood sugar level is impacted by certain foods. It was thought to be a fixed number, but as it turns out, it is not, reports Independent.

For the purpose of the study, researchers recruited 800 healthy and pre-diabetic participants with the ages between 18 and 70. They collected the requisite data through body measurements, glucose monitoring, stool samples, body measurements and questionnaires. The participants were also asked to write about their food intake and lifestyle information into a mobile app that collected information of total 46, 898 meals consumed by them. As per the findings of the research, by tailoring the meal plans as per the person's body is what leads to success of dieting. Elinav said the work "really enlightened us on how inaccurate we all were about one of the most basic concepts of our existence, which is how we eat and how we integrate nutrition into our daily life," reports NDTV Food.