A new NIH precision nutrition study will give some volunteers controlled meals to learn which diets best suits their genes and gut.

As nutrition scientist Elizabeth Parks of the University of Missouri, Columbia, notes, “We all know people who lose weight easily, and others who don’t.”

Now, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is making a major push to understand these individual differences.

Last week, the agency announced what it calls the largest study yet to probe “precision nutrition,” a $156 million, 5-year effort to examine how 10,000 Americans process foods by collecting data ranging from continuous blood glucose levels to microbes in a person’s gut.

The study “has the potential to truly transform the field of nutrition science,” generating new tools, methods, and “a wealth of data to fuel discovery science for years to come,” Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), said last year.

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IBM researchers trained artificial intelligence to pick up hints of changes in language ahead of the onset of neurological diseases.

Is it possible to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease simply by looking at writing patterns years before there are symptoms?

According to a new study by IBM researchers, the answer is yes.

And, they and others say that Alzheimer’s is just the beginning.

People with a wide variety of neurological illnesses have distinctive language patterns that, investigators suspect, may serve as early warning signs of their diseases.