Better Diets Impact Public Health at Lower Cost

Researcher Bruce Ames Ph.D., in Cancer Prevention and Diet: Help from Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, wrote:
"Optimizing micronutrient intake (through better diets, fortification of foods, or multivitamin-mineral pills) can have a major impact on public health at low cost.  Other micronutrients are likey to be added to the list of those whose deficiency causes DNA damage in the coming years.  Tuning-up human metabolism, which varies with genetic constitution and changes with age, is likely to be a major way to minimuze DNA damage, improve health, and prolong healthy lifespan, and a drop of blood (a cheek swab) or a gene chip could be part of the way to accomplish this."
Further:
"It is already apparent that there are many polymorphisms that influence risk in heart disease.  Single nucleotide polymorphisms provide a powerful molecular tool for investigating the role of nutrition in human health and disease, and their integration into clinical, metabolic, and epidemiologic studies can contribute enormously to the definition of optimal diets."

This means that now you can use a more scientific approach to being proactive in doing your best to prevent health problems that might otherwise occur later in life.  We all know that good nutritional care is important in preventing cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis and in defending against other diseases.

Yours in health,
Rhonda