Conquering New Horizons with Nutrigenetics and Nutrigeneomics. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is about seven billion, two hundred twenty-nine million, eighty-nine thousand, one hundred seventy humans, and this number is constantly increasing by the second. Needless to say, this amazing number of occupants of the Earth, leads to an inconceivable diversity among humans. The most primal form of this diversity, is in humans' genetic composition, which is a person's set of genes that dictates his physical and personal traits. However, diversity can also be found in all aspects of life including, diet, language, style, mentality, religious affiliation, political affiliation and many other domains. Those variations exist because of the different cultures inhabiting the world. Nevertheless, in every single civilization, there are families where all members are either overweight or underweight, even though one member might have a completely …show more content…
However, to do so, a person must work with the set of genes he's been given at birth and mold them to achieve his goals, rather than going against them. These two fields have an ultimate purpose which is personalized medicine, where a nutritionist would scan a person's complete genome and give him a specific diet that would help him improve his performance accordingly. Nevertheless, as in all out breaking fields, the ethical issue must be considered. In fact, a full genome scan, shows everything about a person. If a nutritionist who isn't bided by ethical laws, informs insurance companies that a patient of his has a very high risk of getting cancer, the patient will probably lose his chances of employment. Therefore a whole ethical procedure must be done to provide convenient protection for the patient's privacy before any application of Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics is