Tag Archive for 'Disease'

Nutrigenomics developing personalized diets for disease prevention

The emerging field of nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body’s response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative, interdisciplinary reports and analyses in the December 2008 Special Issue (Volume 12, number 4) of OMICS: A Journal [...]

Nuts Added to the Mediterranean Diet Improve Heart Disease Risk

The Mediterranean diet has been proven to benefit people at risk for heart disease and strokes. Now a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, shows that people who were at high risk for heart disease who followed the Mediterranean diet and ate 2 tablespoons of mixed nuts a day significantly improved their [...]