Many of you may have a family history which includes certain chronic diseases. In my family, heart disease is the most common along with Alzheimer's disease. Other families may suffer from auto-immune disease or cancer. The genes our parents pass down to us give us the predisposition for certain illnesses. These genes though, are not a pre-determined destiny. We do not have to follow the path towards actually getting the diseases of our parents and grandparents. Our genes can be influenced by our lifestyle, such as our environmental impacts, stress and nutrition. Over the past decade as the human genome project has accumulated data we can see the impact of nutritional components on certain g
Many of you may have a family history which includes certain chronic diseases. In my family, heart disease is the most common along with Alzheimer's disease. Other families may suffer from auto-immune disease or cancer. The genes our parents pass down to us give us the predisposition for certain illnesses. These genes though, are not a pre-determined destiny. We do not have to follow the path towards actually getting the diseases of our parents and grandparents. Our genes can be influenced by our lifestyle, such as our environmental impacts, stress and nutrition. Over the past decade as the human genome project has accumulated data we can see the impact of nutritional components on certain g
