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Gene Abuse – The Self-Inflicted Path to Type II Diabetes

New diabetes-related gene research on humans has shown for the first time that the over-consumption of calories resulting in being overweight induces changes in gene expression in your muscles that result in a decreased genetic ability to burn calories. Unfortunately, this is incredibly bad news. And on the other hand, it can be viewed as self-empowering.

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Early Life Stress More Detrimental than Previously Thought

Several recent gene studies are demonstrating the life-long impact that early life stress has while in the womb and early childhood. The studies are showing that the influence of stress on the developing baby can turn on inappropriate gene settings that can lead to poor health, even poor mental health.

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Poor Maternal Diet Increases the Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Later in Life

Understanding adverse gene programming in the womb (epigenetic changes) is a key part of the new frontier of science. Researchers have now proven that a low protein diet during pregnancy (malnutrition) induces a malfunction setting in a key gene known as Hnf4a, in turn leading to significantly increased risk for type 2 diabetes later in life.

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Curcumin Helps Change Gene Function to Combat Cancer

Somewhat quietly, in state-of-the-art molecular facilities at the world-renowned University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is almost secret research on the power of nutrition to kill cancer and help traditional cancer therapies work better. After all, the MD Anderson Cancer Center is at the forefront of new-fangled biological cancer medicines and has been a bastion of support for the rather toxic cancer treatments that have dominated Western medicine for decades. On April 21, 2011 they published a groundbreaking scientific review of their research on their favorite anti-cancer nutrient – curcumin. Times are a changing.

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Overeating Moms Program Their Children for Future Obesity

A rather sobering animal study drives home the point that mothers eating too much food prior to and during pregnancy program the physiology of the offspring to be obese even before the child has had anything to eat! The study shows that offspring subjected to a mother’s dietary abuse have higher body fat and smaller livers--factors that set the stage for compromised metabolism and an easy path to obesity.

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