Sentences with phrase «genes affect food»

Ours is the first study describing how brain genes affect food intake and dietary preferences in a group of healthy people.»

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Similarly, someone who inherits the version of a particular gene that's associated with obesity will be more likely to wind up fat than someone who inherits a normal version, but that tendency can be affected by environmental factors such as how much fattening food is available.

Many of the 19 mutations were in genes that affect how mice metabolize fats and carbohydrates from food.

Schosserer will be spending two months in the laboratory of Aric Rogers, Ph.D., at the MDI Biological Laboratory's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine studying the role that molecular regulators of gene expression play in longevity — and in particular how these regulators are affected by lower amounts of food or food with lower energy content.

Bottom line: the food you eat affects the functioning of your genes.

Food contains information that talks to your genes, turning them on or off and affecting their function moment to moment.»

Food and lifestyle directly affects which genes are expressed and in what way.

The molecules in food also affect our genes through epigenetics.

The significance of detox becomes apparent when you understand that our main liver detox gene, P450, has been crippling by the industrial seed oils ubiquitous in the food system thus hindering our ability to detox; recent studies have found that soybean oil, canola oil (and vegetable oils as they typically contain soybean / canola oil) significantly affect the expression of many genes that metabolize drugs and other foreign compounds that enter the body, suggesting that a soybean oil - enriched diet could affect one's response to drugs and environmental toxicants.

It's the powerful new science of how nutrients in your food, drinks, and supplements may affect your health by changing the expression of your genes.