Personalized Diet Plans Based on Your DNA: A Game Changer in Health
Personalized Diet Plans Based on Your DNA: A Game Changer in Health Nutritional science is increasingly moving from generic dietary guidelines to DNA-based personalized nutrition plans. Standard diets often don’t consider individual biological differences, leading to varied results. Recent advances in nutrigenomics and genetic testing for weight loss offer a more precise approach, enabling individuals to adopt […]
Do Genes Make Us Fat?
Some people can eat whatever they want, whenever they want, and never gain an ounce. Others seem to put on weight just walking past a bakery. If you’re in the second category, life may feel a bit unfair. Of course, many physical characteristics differ widely according to the genes we’ve inherited from our parents, including […]
Obesity and Genetics: What is the Connection?
Is Obesity Genetic? Identifying the underlying causes of obesity can help equip us to more effectively treat this complex disease. Such insights may also benefit people living with obesity, since understanding the causes can ease some of the stigma and self-blame that sometimes accompany it. “It’s all in your genes” could provide a tidy explanation. […]
Scientists uncover genetic evidence that ‘we are what we eat’
Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated that the diets of organisms can affect the DNA sequences of their genes. In a study on two groups of parasites, the team detected differences in DNA sequences that could be attributed to the composition of their food. The results are published in the journal Genome Biology. Study […]
Nutrition & the Epigenome
Unlike behavior or stress, diet is one of the more easily studied, and therefore better understood, environmental factors in epigenetic change. The nutrients we extract from food enter metabolic pathways where they are manipulated, modified, and molded into molecules the body can use. One such pathway is responsible for making methyl groups – important epigenetic […]
How your diet could alter your unborn children’s genes
When you pass up a bag of chips, ‘Keep in mind: It’s not just for you, but for the generations to come. Within the last century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation. Genes, regions of DNA that are largely responsible for our physical characteristics, were considered unchanging under the original model of genetics pioneered […]
Nutrition and Epigenetics: How Diet Affects Gene Expression
Have you ever considered your DNA as a piece of hardware and your lifestyle choices as the software that runs it? Stanford lecturer and epigenetics expert Lucia Aronica, PhD, says this is precisely how we should think about the relationship between our genes and our daily choices. “Epigenetics is the software to our DNA hardware,” says […]
How Diet Can Change Your DNA
How Diet Can Change Your DNA Recent studies suggest that the food you eat could modify your genes and potentially your children’s. Nutritionists have long known that ‘you are what you eat’ is not just an expression. Recent studies suggest that what you eat affects you and sometimes even your children and grandchildren. This winter […]
Why people become overweight
Why people become overweight Everyone knows some people who can eat ice cream, cake, and whatever else they want and still not gain weight. At the other extreme are people who seem to gain weight no matter how little they eat. Why? What are the causes of obesity? What allows one person to remain thin […]