Anne Hart's nutrigenomics journalism lecture based on the author's paperback book titled, How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes and Weight Issues: The book's ISBN (number) is: 0-595-53535-6. Published Nov. 2008 by ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse, inc. (http://www.iuniverse.com). Click on Bookstore. Book in paperback format is available from publisher and at most online bookseller's sites such as amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com. Click on Bookstore at the publisher's site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=112359 Also see: http://www.iuniverse.com. Search by book title or author's name.
People vary in responses to food. What can scientists and researchers tell the average family member about healing nutrition information to combat childhood type-2 diabetes or weight issues? How do you explain individualized, tailored, and customized nutrition in plain language to parents, children, and food retailers and to your own healthcare practitioner?
Is it a scientific fact, metabolic reality, common sense, or cultural practice that reports that eating a lot of meat by a metabolic-typed carbohydrate type person might turn to fat, whereas eating mostly vegetables and fruits by a protein type person might turn to fat because the carb-type person may be a slow oxidizer of sugar but the protein-type person may be a fast oxider of sugar? (Sugar would hit the bloodstream fast, causing spikes in insulin due to insulin resistance?)
Would a nutrigenomics-oriented genetic test of specific markers give clues? Or would measuring the insulin response after eating sugar reveal sugar spikes that a fasting glucose blood test might not show on paper?
What information is out there to learn about dangerous eating, food misinformation, and healing foods? Is it true that food that is dangerous for one person may be for another individual a healing food based on individual metabolic and genetic body types? Is it true that specific foods turn into fuel for one person but become fat for another individual? The field of nutrigenomics explores such research.
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