Whether the public is ready or not, big leaps are happening in the field of nutrigenomics. In a paper published in Nature Genetics, scientists have identified 11 new gene variants (in addition to 19 other previously reported) associated with three blood lipids measured to determine cardiovascular disease risk: low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and triglycerides.
These results indicate that a person may have any combination of these genes which can result to dyslipidemia, i.e., a combo of high LDL and triglyceride levels and extremely low HDL-cholesterol which is linked to cardiovascular disease risks. A personalized dietary plan drafted according …read more

Nutrignomics is a nutritional approach that takes your genetic makeup, and hence your predisposition to certain chronic diseases, into consideration. If a meal plan can be designed based on your genetic profile, would you be willing to stick to the plan? A study says that most people are not yet ready to embrace the concept.
Based on these interviews with experts and an extensive literature study, Ronteltap developed different future scenarios to put to the general public. A representative random sample generated a number of conditions that consumers would require before accepting nutrigenomics. The most important is freedom of choice: the …read more

I want a copy of this book: Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging.

Isn’t it amazing that we really are what we eat?