Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

Niall — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:18:42 GMT

I am convinced that there is a link between obesity and having red/ginger hair. I am a 40 year old red haired male and am very overweight. Redheads are quite common here in Ireland, and I firmly believe that they are far more likely to be overweight than others. Everywhere I go I see redheads who are overweight and remind me of myself. Is there anyone else who has noticed this or am I just deluding myself ?

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

Cthulhu — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:15:43 GMT

Hormones, Cells, and Genes ARE influenced by your nutrition and lifestyle. That is a fact. Anyone who has studied biochemistry or biology will know this. Just do the research on how Vitamin D influences your genes. In fact, if nutrition didn't influence your genes, you wouldn't have receptor genes for vitamins, like the vitamin D receptor gene! The fact is, if kids grew up today eating food that they grow and didn't eat all this junk that they call food, half of America woudln't be obese. Genes are like switches. They can be turned on or off. Nutrition and lifestyle can do either. No one has overall "bad genes". Some people are born with genes that are "set genes". What your mother ate when you were in her stomach is a HUGE factor too. Nevertheless, no one fully understands obesity yet, although there are huge factors that we do know of, such as:

1 Your Mothers nutrition when she was pregnant with you

2 A toxic lifestyle (beer, legal and illegal drugs, msg, tap water, smoking)

3 Eating manmade food/poor nutrition

4 Lack of exercise (our bodies were made to exercise daily)

5 Poor "set genes"

6 Hormonal imbalances( which is the main problem, other than diet)

Then there are those people who blame everything on "bad genetics" just because they were to ignorant to practice healthy diet choices during their teenage years, so now when they get a "disease" such as diabetes, they complain about how it's not their fault.

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

Islander — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:18:58 GMT

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re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

bohemiandonut — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:26:24 GMT

Ozy: Did you really not get cravings when you were pregnant? That was the first thing that popped into my head after reading a few of these comments. Maybe you ate so well that you didn't "need" the cravings... which I'm thinking are indicators of a deficiency of some nutrient or vitamin. Basically, "cravings" might be natural. But of course, a natural craving should receive a natural solution (i.e. no freaky synthetic fats).

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

nickm — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:02:32 GMT

But it's still a fact that bad jeans can make you look fat. :)

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re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

david — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:28:49 GMT

Wow! .....
what a phenominal coincidence....where the gene responsible for Obesity is always confined to the people of the world with a Westernised diet.!!;)...
....processed....sugared.....grains....HFCs...additives....

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

mmc88121 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:54:59 GMT

You are what you eat. HFCS is not good for anybody.

Mary

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Russ Bianchi — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:05:22 GMT

Actual nutrient content and sourcing of food has a HUGE trigger factor in genetic predisposition.

60 Minutes (CBS) did a very VISIBLE piece on the Hopi, Zuni, Pueblo and Navaho Nations' reservations, in the southwest, a few years back.

When Native Americans were growing their own food (cattle, poultry, veggies, maze, etc.) they were heathy and thin (minus the chronic white man exploitative alcoholism pervading the reservations since the early 1800's).

When the USDA, US Indian Bureau of Affairs, WIC, Food Stamps, etc. and Uncle Sam started giving away, subsidizing white man processed soda, cheese, processed foods, etc., obesity and diabetes rates have now soared to over 75% of the entire populations or the reservations, and actuarial mortality rates have dropped to an average of 45.6 years.

Essentially premeditative slow motion GENOCIDE.

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

pinkskittles — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:44:27 GMT

heredity will give a person a genetic predisposition to a certain disease, say, obesity, but people's environment will dictate how this gene will come into play in their lives.

nothing is 100% nature or nurture, it's a combination.

eating right can make you less likely to develop obesity even if you're genetically predisposed to it.

you aren't helpless if you have the fat gene!

re: Good Nutrition Can Overcome Bad Genes

Lloyd Fielder D.C. — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:07:23 GMT

Awesome!!