People Are All Different

[TheMyth]

People Are All Different

This myth is so rampant that it just had to be added to the list of ten. The scientific design of the human body is held within very tight restraints. People are not different in the manner claimed. Humans react in the very same way when they are given the same environment, same beginning health condition and same nutrition. People only appear to be different because they have some have health condition which restrict the normal scientific functions. A typical example is the diabetic who attempts to go on the low-carbohydrate diet or eats a large piece of high-sugar cherry pie with a glass of orange juice. They react much differently than a healthy person. People think everyone is different because someone developed a disease while another family member does not. They don't realize that people in the same family can sit at the same table and eat completely different meals as defined by protein, fat and carbohydrate content. A person can go into a restaurant and eat a low-carbohydrate dinner while others at the same table are eating a very high carbohydrate dinner.

Many people use a common cliché to side-step scientific absolutes by saying, "Oh, that may work for them or for you, but that doesn't work for me at all." This is the typical logic people use not realizing that the case in point violates universal laws of science. This excuse should be challenged or dismissed immediately, but instead, it is readily accepted by almost everyone. The myths and nonsense about nutrition and health goes on and on.

People search for an excuse to continue their high-carbohydrate addiction. Claiming that all people are different is one of the most popular excuses given in order to continue in their addictive lifestyle without providing justification. These people are deceiving themselves.

People seem to go ballistic when told they are the same as everyone else. The excuse for their obesity or disease is snatched away by the scientific truth that everyone is basically the same. They know they must hang onto the excuse that they are somehow different. They want a scapegoat for their problem. They maintain, "It's not my fault. People are different." They want to blame their condition on anything else, but not their diet. When every other excuse has been exhausted they resort to nonsense that can't be readily disproved, "It is in my genes."

[Sacklunch]

so true. you know that diet fad that revolved around eating for your blood type? man was that hilarious, all these 40 year old women suddenly big on health because some moron convinced them that their blood type governed their physical health. wow, that was something.

May I play devil's advocate?

I'm not debating your premise--we are responsible for what we put in our stomachs.

But we are soooo different. Twenty years ago, I had an experience which completely changed my mind on the nature vs nurture debate. The nurses cleaned up my twin sons, swathed them in little blankies, and put one under each of my arms. They were 5 minutes old, and yet their personalities, as they exist today, were fully intact during those first moments of life.

[Citruscide]

People and their bodies may be the same. However, we are all individually different in our response to training, physical exertion and recuperation.

To say that one person will experience the same gains, same experience and same effect of one training program... would be lunacy.

It's called the Principle of Individual Differences. People have a similar response and adaptation to the stimulus of exercise, but the rate and magnitude of these changes will be limited by our differing genetics. Some are fast responders, some are slow responders ... it is the Principle of Individual Differences.

I therefore disagree with your post and your myth.

C-ditty