Healthy food may not be good for everyone’s health

Wellington, May 26 (ANI): Eating healthy food despite not liking it may not be doing any good to your health, say researchers.

Because every person’s genetic make-up is unique, they do not derive the same benefits from the same foods.

Auckland University is currently hosting a “nutrigenomics” conference for scientists and nutritionists from around the Asia Pacific region, where discussing how the research can be used to help people suffering from illnesses is taking centre stage.

Nutrigenomics is a growing research area where scientists study how individuals respond to different foods depending on their genes.

The study will help researchers understand why two people on the same diet do not benefit in the same ways.

“There’s always been a proportion of people dieticians think might be cheating because they don’t respond,” Stuff.co.nz quoted Professor Lynn Ferguson, the head of nutrition at Auckland University, as saying.

A nutrigenomics research programme, which would help sufferers of the “debilitating” Crohn’s disease, was underway in Auckland.

Ferguson said it would now be possible to tailor a diet which would help sufferers according to their genetic makeup.

Babies born into a family where other people suffered from Crohn’s’s disease would also have genetic testing done and Ferguson they could be prescribed specific diets which could mean they never develop the disease. (ANI)