In an Age, where we are rapidly being run down by a variety of lifestyle related health issues, like diabetes, hypertension, thyroid problems, cancer, fatty liver(even in non-alcoholics), sleep disorders; it is time that we realise that something very basic and common to all of us is the cause behind it.
Human body, since its birth and even before birth is nourished by the food that you give to it. Food and its nutrients have the power to affect the expression of genes in the DNA of each individual, as it is studied in Nutrigenetics. That goes to say, though a person can be born with the genes which increases his chance of having a particular disease, but the right nutrients that he consumes and other environmental factors have the power to modify the genetic outcome.
Hippocrates, who is known as the ‘Father of Medicine’ 460 BC-370 BC is quoted as saying “ “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
India, today is facing the dual challenge of undernutrition as well as overnutrition. With India emerging as one of the growing economies of the world, the parity to buy food is going to increase and hence comes the need to ensure conscious eating across generations. In Hippocrates words again “Let food be thy medicine”.
