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Sticking to a vegetarian diet may be partly genetic, a study found. The research identified several genes associated with people's adherence to vegetarianism.
A person’s genetic makeup can play a role in determining whether they can stick to a strict vegetarian diet or not, according to a new study.. The research, published on Wednesday in the journal ...
A new study shows that a person’s ability to stick to a vegetarian diet may be tied to their genetic makeup. As more people go meatless, this biological information could help make the change ...
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. [1] [2] A person who practices vegetarianism is known as a vegetarian. Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons.
The Greek sage Pythagoras may have advocated an early form of strict vegetarianism, [28] [29] but his life is so obscure that it is disputed whether he ever advocated any form of vegetarianism. [30] He almost certainly prohibited his followers from eating beans [ 30 ] and wearing woolen garments . [ 30 ]
Nutritional genomics, also known as nutrigenomics, is a science studying the relationship between human genome, human nutrition and health. People in the field work toward developing an understanding of how the whole body responds to a food via systems biology, as well as single gene/single food compound relationships.
Ewald, whose background is in evolutionary biology, points out that any disease causing gene that reduces survival and reproduction would normally eliminate itself over a number of generations. Ewald says that "chronic diseases, if they are common and damaging, must be powerful eliminators of any genetic instruction that may cause them."
Eating a vegan, vegetarian or lacto-ovo vegetarian diet significantly reduces the overall risk of developing cancer, heart disease and dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new ...