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Scientists who specialize in nutritional genomics have only begun to decipher the relationship between DNA sequences, diets and ailments like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Their hope is that someday your own nutritional geneticist will be able to scan your DNA and tell you exactly how to plan your diet given the genes you've been bequeathed...
...lifestyle information provided. Change half the function, she says, and you?re bound to get a different result. And although she concedes that nutrigenomics is a young field, she disagrees vehemently with the GAO?s claim that her company cannot back up its reports with sound science. "Can we tell you that in 30 years you won't get heart disease?" asks Gill-Garrison. "No we cannot say that. But we are not predicting risk, and we're not diagnosing disease...
...what exactly is Sciona doing? The company, says Gill-Garrison, tells its customers if any of the 19 genes they screen reveal a metabolic problem that has been clearly associated with disease. If the tests suggest the customer has a gene that promotes, say, a bad cholesterol profile, it can tell that person, based on his dietary and lifestyle profile, how to modify his diet and habits to keep his good (HDL) and bad (LDL) cholesterol in healthy balance. Ditto for other genetic markers. Sciona, says Gill-Garrison, makes sure that each nugget of advice it offers is built...
...tell us anything about the next Harry Potter movie...
...miniempire of merchandise, including a perfume called Stoked and an eponymous line of accessories sold at teen favorite Claire's. She is also working on a young-adult fiction series and three advice books. "It's been really exciting," she says. "I'm happy I'll be able to tell my story and inspire other girls...