Genetic Nutrition: Designing a Diet Based on Your Family Medical History

A look at the role that genetics play in one's susceptibility to disease presents a scientifically based nutrition program that shows readers how to custom-design a diet to counteract obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, and other inherited conditions.

Using the premise that genetic factors determine one's susceptibility to disease, Simopoulos, who is director of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health of the American Association for World Health, and her coauthors explain how to plot a family medical tree and determine a genetic predisposition. Armed with such data, readers can design an appropriate diet to counteract certain diseases. Because nutrition can play an important role in combating heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and alcoholism, it makes sense to study one's genetic heritage and use the available weapons. The authors' comprehensive discussions of these specific diseases and the inclusion of appropriate nutrition plans tailored for each one make this book an excellent resource. Simopoulos's Genetic Variation and Nutrition (Karger, 1990) provides additional information on this subject. Recommended for most collections.
- Janet M. Coogan, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville
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