Are "DNA Diets" Just a Fad?

 Are "DNA Diets" Just a Fad?

These days, the diet and weight reduction industry is a multi-billion dollar behemoth. Of course, we've all heard the innumerable sales pitches for diet and weight loss programs, books, and other materials promising easy, miraculous weight loss.

Products, events, and books in this category often boast about their "unique" foundation in science and technology.

There is a wide variety of diet aids that have recently gained popularity, including supplements that promise to burn fat and calories, curb hunger, or prevent carbohydrates and fat from entering the bloodstream and being stored as fat or excess weight. As buyers, though, how can we be sure that anything here will function as advertised?

The DNA Diet, one of these supposedly scientifically based diet fads that charges quite hefty prices, has been in the headlines lately for allegedly taking advantage of clients for ridiculously high amounts of money. The government is looking into the business that promotes this concept for deceiving customers.

This business offers what they call DNA "kits" on their website; customers are to swab the inside of their mouth and send it in for "DNA analysis"; the kit also comes with a personalized dietary prescription.

There is a wide price range, from $499 to $1,000, and you may easily spend over $1,800 for a year of this diet advice and supplements.

Companies that provide dietary guidance, supplementation, or analysis have already been tarnished by investigators' claims that there is no evidence that their practice is effective.

Additionally, this business sells pricey dietary supplements that are primarily composed of concentrated vitamins; some experts worry that the high quantities of these supplements may do more harm than good.

And since the supplements' composition remained same regardless of the DNA type used, the claim that they are genetically "custom tailored" is widely believed to be unfounded.

The investigators bought the DNA analysis kits from four separate websites after fabricating fourteen fictitious clients. Various client information, including lifestyles, age ranges, etc., was filled out by them on the accompanying surveys. An adult male and a newborn girl's DNA were associated with each questionnaire.

The analysis was obviously not accurate or genuine because the advise was all over the place and several items of advice just restated common knowledge, including that smoking causes heart disease.

No word yet on whether the firm will be shuttered or if they will be required to alter their procedures as a result of the continuing inquiry.

This exemplifies the need of exercising extreme caution when buying or reading the claims made by diet pills or any other self-improvement product. The arrival of the next deceptive product is always a mystery.

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