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Food Pyramid - Balanced Diet - Nutrigenomics

Nutrigenomics combines the study of an organism's genetic makeup with the study of dietary chemicals. 

"Since the early 1990s, researchers have been studying nutrigenomics as a means to create individualized diet plans based on the way a person’s genes interact to dietary and environmental elements. The idea is that by customizing diets according to genetic makeup, people can eat foods that will prevent the diseases to which they are most susceptible".  (Diabetic Microvascular Complications Today, March/April 2005, article by Laura Suarez, Associate Editor)