Whole-Food Guide For Breast Cancer Survivors - Plot & Excerpts
Eating for Health Foundational PlanWould you really rather have broccoli or a sticky bun talk to your genes?—Robert Rountree, MD, May 2010, National Association of Nutrition Professionals conferenceChapter Goal: Understand the foundational plan for healthy eating—Eating for HealthIs it nature or nurture that determines our susceptibility to cancer? One of the most exciting concepts in modern nutrition, nutrigenomics, teaches us that it isn’t one or the other, but a combination of both. Nutrigenomics looks at how foods can trigger genetic changes for good or ill. Through the efforts of nutrigenomic scientists, there is growing evidence that good dietary choices can help prevent the onset of cancer and may even help cure it.You might believe that your genetic code is what it is and that it determines many things about your health status over your lifetime. This is partly true, but a variety of influences can alter your DNA at any time, and even in the absence of any genetic tendency, breast cancer can result.
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