Healthy diet? That depends on your genes
Shifts in the diets of Europeans after the introduction of farming 10,000 years ago led to genetic adaptations that favored the dietary trends of the time, new research indicates. The study has implications for the growing field of nutritional genomics, called nutrigenomics. Based on one’s ancestry, clinicians may one day tailor each person’s diet to her or his genome to improve health and prevent disease. …read more
