Your Diet Type appears to be Extreme Carbohydrate. Introduction to Metabolic Typing
Metabolic typing represents the work of many doctors, researchers and biochemists over the last 70 years. The basic concept is that everyone is metabolically unique and one man's meat is another man's poison. Many claim with complete confidence that when your metabolic type is correctly assessed and your diet and supplements adjusted accordingly, optimal health, with prevention and reversing of disease, can be achieved. They believe that metabolic typing is much more effective than 'one size fits all' generalized nutritional approaches.

Modern medicine looks at the condition and seeks to treat it. Metabolic typing looks at the person and seeks to treat them. When the person is treated correctly, many health problems resolve on their own. This is an important distinction to make. Discovering more about you will help your health problems be less.

Dr. William Kelley, with degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, biology and dentistry, developed an untreatable, aggressive form of pancreatic cancer before the age of 40. With a vegetarian diet and individualized nutrient approach, he recovered and soon was treating others. Then his wife became seriously ill and he applied the same vegetarian diet and nutrients to her. She failed to respond, becoming worse. After many failed attempts to help her, there was nothing left to do but add meat to her diet. Her recovery was swift and dramatic. From his growing experience and the work of others, he went on to develop a clinical tool for assessing metabolic individuality.

There have been no blinded trials supporting or disproving metabolic typing. This can be partially explained. Once Dr. Kelly concluded which diets benefited which types, he was understandably unwilling to give a seriously ill patient a diet that he knew would make them worse. Like any compassionate person, it would be unethical to use a placebo on someone who is seriously ill, when you know of a treatment that would help. However, if all of the treatments available to a doctor are poor, then it is much easier to conduct a trial. More research does need to be done in the area of metabolic typing.

Why do two people with the same condition, not respond similarly to the same treatment? Apart from actually having different problems, it is possibly because they are biochemically different. If everyone was internally and chemically identical, some diets would work better than others, and each would work uniformly throughout the group. As it is, there are many successes and failures within a particular diet type, as well as success and failure on opposite type diets. The confusion is reduced when metabolic type is considered first, before recommending a diet.

The Analyst is using several such disciplines to make recommendations that will be of the most use to you. More information and further testing regarding metabolic typing, if needed, can be obtained through a service called HealthExcel. Until more research can confirm this approach, you and your doctor must decide and discover what works for you.

If you think of your food as fuel, then the proportions of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats can be viewed as your fuel mixture. If you get the right fuel for your type and the right fuel mixture, you'll have a powerful force at work. Your food will be efficiently converted to energy rather than stored as fat.

Characteristics of Your Metabolic Type
Here are some typical tendencies that you may have in common with other Extreme Carbo Types:
Relatively Weak Appetite. A little food goes a long way. You need fewer or smaller meals.
High Tolerance for Sweets. Unless you have low blood sugar, you usually handle then pretty well, but don’t over do it.
Caffeine Dependency. There is a tendency to rely on caffeine to get through the day.

Dietary Emphasis for Extreme Carbo types
Extreme Carbo types need to eat less protein and fat and increase their intake of carbohydrates. You can handle a wide selection of both starchy and non-starchy carbohydrates.

There are also nutrient recommendations based on your metabolic type. The customized nutrient list for your type are as follows.
Nutrients to Emphasize:
Potassium, Magnesium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Silicone, Boron, Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, C, D, Paba, biotin, and Folic acid.

Nutrients to De-emphasize:
Calcium, Iodine, Phosphorus, Zinc, Sulfur, Choline, Inositol, Lysine, Bioflavonoids, Vitamins A, B5, and B12.

There may be conflicts with other recommendations elsewhere, or your personal experience. Please do not be discouraged by this. You are unique, and life is a journey of discovery. By learning and observing you can successfully find those things which are the most beneficial for you.

You also need to become familiar with the Allowable Foods Charts for Carbo types. The Dietary Charts used in food selection for balancing your metabolic type are located HERE. You need to be leaning heavily toward the Carbohydrate table, and away from foods on the Protein table. There are different kinds of proteins. Some are high in fat and high in purines, others low. The low-fat, low-purine proteins are best for Carbo types.

A low protein, low fat diet is your key to losing weight, feeling energized both mentally and physically, and staying on an even keel emotionally. Over the long term, such a diet, if properly followed and tailored to your metabolic individuality, can prevent you from developing many serious degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular problems, immune deficiency, blood sugar abnormalities, osteoporosis, arthritis, digestive disorders, and other chronic illnesses rooted in metabolic imbalance.

Key points to remember:
- Emphasize low-fat, low-purine proteins
- Eat Protein at every meal. Especially if hypoglycemic.
- Dairy foods are in question. If you notice a worsening of energy or mood after consuming dairy products, you may need to restrict your use of them.
- Snack if needed
- Whole grains are generally good. Breads are typically good. Sprouted breads (such as Ezekiel) are best.
- Vegetable Juice is good. It is better to eat the whole fruit, than get too much fruit juice.
- Be on guard against too many starchy and refined carbohydrates at one meal. Eat all the nonstarchy vegetables you want.
- Use fats and oils sparingly. If on a low fat diet, it is especially important to balance the omega 6 and omega 3 oils.
- Limit nuts because of their high fat content.

30+% of your diet should come from proteins and fats, 60+% from carbohydrates. A popular book discussing a low fat, high complex carbohydrate diet is The New Pritikin Program: The Easy and Delicious Way to Shed Fat, Lower Your Cholesterol, and Stay Fit by Robert Pritikin, MD. He has written several other books dealing with the same subject.