Reprogramming Your Body
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Science & Health
Reprogramming Your Body
This year’s National Nutrition Month theme is “Put Your Best Fork Forward,” which is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’s way to remind us that each bite counts. Food, after all, is more than fuel—it is information. The bioactive substances of food—along with physical activity, toxins, and stress—can modify our “gene expression,” that is, how our bodies function. While food cannot change our genetic predispositions (such as, for instance, to heart disease), it can affect…