In 2006 the General Accounting Office (GAO) did its own report, focusing on the related field of nutrigenetic testing, in which companies test your DNA and then use that information to give you diet and lifestyle recommendations. (discovermagazine.com)
IFNA ™ training includes skill - building and competencies in key clinical areas: nutrition - focused physical assessment; therapeutic elimination diets; conventional and functional labs and diagnostics including nutrigenetic testing; art and science of dietary supplements; mind - body modalities such as meditation, yoga, breathing techniques and other lifestyle - oriented practices. (ifnacademy.com)
• In nutrigenetics, the aim is to understand how genetic makeup determines response to diet and susceptibility to diet - related disease — i.e., a number of genetic variations have been shown to increase the susceptibility to Type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and some autoimmune diseases and cancers. (news.wsu.edu)