Zeevi et al. 2015

Research paper

Zeevi D, Korem T, Zmora N, Israeli D, Rothschild D, Weinberger A, Ben-Yacov O, Lador D, Avnit-Sagi T, Lotan-Pompan M, Suez J, Mahdi JA, Matot E, Malka G, Kosower N, Rein M, Zilberman-Schapira G, Dohnalova L, Pevsner-Fischer M, Bikovsky R, Halpern Z, Elinav E, Segal E. Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses. Cell. 2015 Nov 19;163(5):1079-94. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.001

Why we cite it

A study showing ”high interpersonal variability” in glycemic responses to identical foods — *which the authors say is ”suggesting that universal dietary recommendations may have limited utility”***, their own verb and their own hedge. The scale (800 people, 46,898 meals, continuous glucose monitoring) and the machine learning approach — validated on an independent cohort and tested in a blinded RCT — are what give this paper its standing.

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