Ernährung bei Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

A healthy diet is the cornerstone of disease-free aging. Therefore, national professional associations recommend a balanced diet and mindfulness. Therapeutic intentions only become more concrete when certain health restrictions are present, but these recommendations often contradict habitual dietary patterns, which makes it difficult to follow the advice or even impossible for the long term. An improvement in compliance could be achieved by being able to assess the success of the treatment at an early stage and refraining from recommendations that lead to little or no success. When it comes to individualized therapy, medicine will no longer want to miss the progress, especially in tumor genetics. Nutrigenetics can help to target the long-term well-being of the population, both therapeutically and prophylactically, with tailor-made nutritional recommendations. With regard to glycaemia, the group of rapid metabolizers could benefit from coffee consumption, while another genotype should be particularly careful not to eat late meals. Whether this new field of study can make a substantial contribution to improved nutritional advice will depend on new methods that convert complex genetic relationships into simple algorithms that can also be used in practice.