Eat Your Way to Better DNA :The Scientist [2006-09-01]


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Eat Your Way to Better DNA In 2002, he and his colleagues tested whether dietary fat might modulate the effect of the allele. "We decided to consider whether APOA1 is regulated by nutrients, since people are eating different things," Ordovas recalls. They looked at 755 men and 822 women who were participants in the Framingham Offspring Study, a population for which there are rigorous data on HDL levels,