Personalized nutrition and cardiovascular disease prevention: From Framingham to PREDIMED.

ABSTRACT: Diet is considered the cornerstone for the prevention of age-related diseases, and a low-fat diet has been considered for decades as the most suitable alternative to achieve this goal. However, mounting evidence supports the efficacy of other alternatives, such as the Mediterranean diet. Nevertheless, it is well known that people present a dramatic range of responses to similar environmental challenges, and it has been shown that some of this variability is rooted in the genome. In fact, this knowledge is driving the field of nutrigenetics. The finding of interactions between diet and genetic variants has led to intense research and debate about the effectiveness of personalized nutrition as a more suitable tool for the prevention of chronic diseases than the traditional 1-size-fits-all re

SUBMITTER: Konstantinidou V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4013195 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature