A report, coming out in the journal Obesity, details the coming transformation of weight loss that uses a person’s particular genome to tailor the exercise regimens and diet plans to help individuals with a “precision weight loss” plan.

The coming innovation will be portable, non-invasive analytical tools that will help create these specific plans for weight loss.

“I think within five years, we’ll see people start to use a combination of genetic, behavioral and other sophisticated data to develop individualized weight management plans,” said the lead researcher.

The researchers speculate that in the future, saliva samples will be submitted for gene sequencing and along with other environmental factors will be entered into the computer that will be able to spit out a specific program for weight loss.

They say short-term weight loss is already achievable and the norm. The hard part is in long-term.

Other research points to the fact that half the variation in people’s body mass index is genetic, while the rest is made up of a variety of environmental factors including diet and exercise. This means that exercise may work for one person, while it doesn’t work quite as well for another individual.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151223130021.htm

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21381/abstract