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High blood sugar levels are a risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
Doctors today have only general dietary recommendations for how to control those levels, because there's no real way to predict what's called the post-prandial glycemic response-that is, just how your particular blood glucose level will be affected by what you eat.
But a new study may be the start of making glucose controlling food recommendations more personal.
Scientists in Israel followed 800 nondiabetic adults over one week, checking their blood glucose levels every five minutes.
The participants got a full medical workup, including a stool sample to analyze their gut microbiome.
The participants logged the food they ate, their exercise and their sleep.
They chose their own food except for one meal a day, which was one of four standardized options.
The result? “The blood sugar response of different people to identical meals can be hugely different.”
Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Segal and his colleagues found that one person's blood glucose might spike in response to a particular food, while that same food would actually lower another person's.
The study is in the journal Cell.
The researchers then developed an algorithm that could predict an individual's blood sugar responses to various meals.
“We link nutrition in a personalized manner to human risk to develop elevated blood sugar levels and their many complications.”
Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute, who also took part in the study.
“As scientists we often deal with very basic questions, but in this work we are very happy to also introduce a potential that if further developed would allow to benefit the health of millions across the world.”
参考译文
高血糖对于二型糖尿病很危险。
现在对于如何控制血糖医生们仅有饮食方面的建议，因为没有行之有效的办法预测餐后血糖，即你的饮食对血糖水平会产生怎样的影响。
但一项新的研究可能会使饮食建议中对葡萄糖量的控制更具人性化。
以色列科学家们对800多名非糖尿病患者进行了为期一周的跟踪调查，每隔5分钟就会对他们的血糖进行监测。
这些受试者们会进行全面的医疗检查，其中包括通过粪便样本分析他们的肠道微生物。
受试者会记录下所吃食物、体育锻炼及睡眠时间。
除了一天一餐外，他们可以选择自己的食物，这是4个标准化选项之一。
结果如何?“相同的饮食条件，血糖反应却因人而异。”
魏茨曼科学研究院的埃兰·赛格尔说道。
赛格尔和他的同事们发现某种特别的食物会使得一个人的血糖含量增加，但却降低另外一个人的血糖。
这项研究已经在《细胞》杂志上发表。
而后研究人员发现了一种可以预测个体对不同食物血糖含量反应的算法。
“我们用个性化方式的营养将血糖升高及并发症风险联系起来。”
来自魏兹曼研究所同时也参与该项研究的埃兰·埃莉娜说道。
“身为科学家，我们经常解决最为根本的问题，但如果进一步研究能让世界数百万人收获健康，我们会很开心介绍这种潜在的方法。”
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重点讲解
1.medical workup 医疗检查
例句:I just got the full medical workup on tess.
我刚拿到苔丝的全面身体检查报。
2.except for 除…之外;若不是
例句:The room was silent except for John's crunching.
屋子里一片寂静，只有约翰发出的咀嚼声。
3.in response to 对…做出反应
例句:He chuckled in response to her question.
他轻轻一笑作为对她的问题的回答。
4.link to 与…连接，联系
例句:But the latest study is the first to link the phenomenon to the stresses and strains of everyday life and to rising levels of stress hormones.
但这项最新研究还是第一次将这种现象与日常生活的紧张压力以及增长的应激激素水平相联系。
