Nutrigenomics: How Science Works av Carsten Carlberg, Stine Marie Ulven, Ferdinand Molnar

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<p>The fascinating area of <b>Nutrigenomics</b> describes this daily communication between our diet and our genome. This book describes how nutrition shapes human evolution and demonstrates its consequences for our susceptibility to diseases, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis. Inappropriate diet can yield stress for our cells, tissues and organs and then it is often associated with low-grade chronic inflammation. Overnutrition paired with physical inactivity leads to overweight and obesity and results in increased burden for a body that originally was adapted for a life in the savannahs of East Africa. Therefore, this textbook does not discuss a theoretical topic in science, but it talks about real life and our life-long "chat" with diet. We are all food consumers, thus each of us is concerned by the topic of this book and should be aware of its mechanisms.<br><br></p><div>The purpose of this book is to provide an overview on the principles of nutrigenomics and their relat