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News Feature: Designer diets

Nature Medicine volume 11, pages 701–702 (2005)Cite this article

Sure, your DNA makes you who you are, but should it determine what you eat? Gunjan Sinha explores the ripening field of nutrigenomics.

At 5 feet 5 inches and 112 pounds, Ginzburg didn't look like she had cause for concern, but she was worried because of her family history. Her mother had died of a stroke in her early 80s and her late father had suffered from chest pain and high blood pressure. Ginzburg's doctor recommended she take the drug lovastatin to bring down her cholesterol. “But I didn't want to take it,” says the 61-year-old marriage counselor. “I had heard that the drug wasn't good for your liver.” Then last year, an acquaintance suggested she consult Carolyn Katzin, a nutritionist in Los Angeles, who offers a gene-based nutrition test that she calls the 'DNA diet,' a term she has trademarked. Ginzburg jumped at the chance.

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