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The Secrets of Personal Health Nutrition - You Decide

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We posted an article a while back on revolutionary personalized health nutrition programs based on your genetics, within the health field known as nutrigenomics.

Personalized nutrition programs based on an individual’s specific needs have generated some interest in the press, but apparently not so much interest with consumers Professor Mike Gibney, Director of University College Dublin’s Institute of Food and Health, told NutraIngredients.com.

“So far, the focus of personalised nutrition has been on genetics – and it hasn’t worked,” said Professor Gibney.¹

What Would You Choose?
It makes sense that many of us can’t really connect with a genetic approach to health nutrition. After all, mapping the human genome still sounds like a highly scientific undertaking and not like something that really applies to our daily lives. Yet.

Gibney and his associates are beginning a research project that involves 2,000 people to find out more about how the public would like to obtain personalized nutrition information. These people will be assigned to three groups:

• Genetic group: determining individual nutrition plans based on genetic profiles.

• Online group: participants use an online service to input detailed information on lifestyle, diet, etc. to determine an individual nutrition plan.

• Pin-prick group: a tiny pin-prick blood sample will be used to determine individual’s nutrition needs.

So, which of the three options would you choose to determine your personalized health nutrition plan? Have you tried any of the three? Tell us using the comment field below!

¹ EC funds project to examine personalised nutrition. NutraIngredients.com. 7 Jul 2010