The Power of Personalized Nutrition

Recently, a study reported positive changes in healthy
dietary trends for Americans. This unsurprisingly resulted in less disease
burden, proving the power of food as medicine. However, we still have a way to
go. The authors state:

Using
data relating index scores to health outcomes in two large cohorts, we
estimated that the improvements in dietary quality from 1999 to 2012 prevented
1.1 million premature deaths. Also, this improvement in diet quality
resulted in 8.6 percent fewer cardiovascular disease cases,
1.3 percent fewer cancer cases, and 12.6 percent fewer type 2
diabetes cases. Although the steady improvement in dietary quality likely
accounted for substantial …read more