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Fix Your Genetics! With healthy eating?
dailygalaxy.com — A healthy lifestyle might change you on the *genetic* level - turning off disease-provoking genes and turning on good ones. Is really possible?
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- tatercakes, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5I'm not some wacko hippy, but scientifically almost everything about your body can be controlled with eating and breathing. Stupid diet and drug industry keeps your head all wrapped around the rest of the craziness.
- monicazir, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5When the Native Americans of the Southwest eat their traditional diet of beans etc., it is digested very slowly and so only a low level steady release of insulin from the pancreas is required. The genes that have given them a moderate system of insulin production work well and are sufficient if they stick to the native diet. On a modern diet many develop diabetes. Their collection of particular genes in their expression and operation on a modern diet malfunction just like in a different case genes can malfunction to produce cancer. A chemical assault on a gene can mutate it. But in general I would say the genes stay the same. I guess it's true only in the negative: a diet can indirectly mutate a gene for a bad effect, but I would say a diet can't do anything positive to an intact gene.
- flutterby10, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3This is the link to the video referenced within the article. It makes a good case about eating habits and health.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/10
............worth watching
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