genetics food

If you worry about al-Qaeda infiltrating the Amish farming community or the organic food movement, you can finally relax. The Bush administration will leave no chicken behind . . .

Could people one day evolve to eat rich food while remaining perfectly slim and svelte?

This may not be so wild a fantasy. It is becoming clear that the human genome does respond to changes in diet, even though it takes many generations to do so.

Researchers studying the enzyme that converts starch to simple sugars like glucose have found that people living in countries with a high-starch diet produce considerably more of the enzyme than people who eat a low-starch diet.