Relationship Between Diet and Genetika
Relationship between diet and genetika Un study confirms the importance of diet-gene combination in obesity: not only influence the diet and genetics in isolation but is also very important that the combination of both, so that what a person fat least can affect another. Thus, genetic analysis to determine a personalized diet that is closer day by day, is one of the hopes to combat overweight and obesity.
The research was led by the Human Nutrition Research Center in Boston (USA), and she has collaborated, among others, both scientists of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Valencia (led by Dolors Corella) and Dr. Jose Ordovas recognized expert in the field internationally. The work has been published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
The importance of research is that for the first time it has been demonstrated gene-diet interaction in three different populations, which increases the validity of their results. This interaction implies that if it is true that the risk of obesity is strongly influenced by heredity, the expression of these genes is often conditioned by the type of food.
According to investigators, around a 15% of the population has a particular genetic variation is a 80% increase in the risk of obesity (with respect to people who eat the same thing but do not have this variation), but only if have a diet high in saturated fat. However, that tendency to gain weight is not manifest in people with this genetic variation if not high in saturated fat consume.
A practical application of the above would do a genetic test to an obese person to see whether or not this variation. If yes, would you restrict your diet much saturated fat, otherwise it could be part of your diet without problem, at least with regard to overweight. When extending the research and learn more variations of this kind, customized diets may be prescribed, so that simply removing adelantaríamos our diet those foods that fatten us, given our genetic peculiarities.
This can not be carried out today, but perhaps the time may be not so far away. Dr. Corella itself argued that the findings of this study “will move forward.