Paper of the month: Public acceptance of nutrigenomic-based personalised nutrition

The May Nutrition Society 'Paper of the month' is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘An insight into the public acceptance of nutrigenomic-based personalised nutrition’. Below is the author's blog on this paper, and you can now access the full paper online for a limited time by following the link provided below. Further comments and discussion are welcomed. An insight into the public acceptance of nutrigenomic-based personalised nutrition The development of disease prevention strategies aimed at reducing the incidence of non-communicable diseases is a key priority in nutrition research. With estimates that the majority of these conditions could be prevented through diet and lifestyle changes, we naturally look towards dietary interventions to bring about this reduction in disease risk. However, despite widespread promotion of population based healthy eating guidelines over the last decade, diseases such as CVD remains the leading cause of mortality in the EU. Recent evidence, founded on the emergence of the nutrigenomic and nutrigenetic disciplines, has pointed towards personalised nutrition as a means of facilitating this. Attrition to nutritional guidelines poses one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the success of dietary interventions and, whilst there is a dearth of research investigating the efficacy of nutrigenomic-based personalised nutrition, the initial results look promising. In a study conducted by Arkadianos et al. (2007) it was found that nu...
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