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Excerpt # 1
    We have confidence in your ability to make the most of your genetic inheritance because Fat is Not your Fate has helped hundreds of our patients and clients synchronize their foods and eating habits with their genes. Consistently, good health and weight loss flowed from their efforts. One patient, a cardiologist who had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, came to us because she was not getting results from the high-carbohydrate, heart-healthy diet recommended at the time. Whenever she ate a plateful of pasta, her blood sugar rocketed. A glucose receptor problem related to her genes and extra weight barricaded her cells against blood sugar. Glucose accumulated in her bloodstream. We knew she needed a diet personalized to her genetic risk for diabetes, not the general recommendation. A lower total carb diet, combined with high-fiber carbohydrates and protein, worked better. When we customized her diet, she lost weight and kept it off.
    In another example, an overweight and hypertensive police officer couldn't meet his department's rigorous fitness requirements. With his excess weight and high blood pressure, this client was a heart attack waiting to happen as he rolled through the city on his motorcycle. He needed a personalized diet to tame his sodium-sensitive genes into directing the hormones that control blood pressure more effectively. We loaded his cycle saddlebags with dried fruit and restricted his trips to sodium-loaded fast food joints. He lost weight and decreased his blood pressure.
    The secret to both these patients' successes wasn't the diet trend of the week. It was in their genes.

Excerpt # 2
    Nutrigenomics connects nature and nurture, putting them on the same two-way street. Just as nature (i.e. genes) affects nurture (i.e. environmental influences such as foods, stress, and habits), nurture also affects nature. Nutrigenomics shows that nutrition can actually alter an individual's "nature," i.e. their genetic expression.
   We are what are genes tell us to be and we are what we eat too, right down to the distinct chemical constituents of any given food product. The interface is nutrigenomics, a field almost unknown as recently as five years ago. In the future, the nutrition-gene link will use data from personalized gene testing to assemble even more personalized food prescriptions for health.
   The right foods that contain beneficial dietary chemicals reduce the influx of problem ligands that have been turning on your disease-causing, weight-gain causing genes. Potentially and by contrast, they will also encourage the expression of genes that will optimize health, longevity and well being. In this manner, phenotype dieting actually changes who you are. It's as easy as first determining your genetic and personal risks through our assessment and quiz, then following the regime designed for that phenotype. Your genes define you - they should define your diet.

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What Type Are You?

Download, print, and answer the questions on our Phenotype Assessment (PDF, 37Kb) to find out which Phenotype you are so you can choose the proper diet.

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Taking the Weight Trigger Quiz (PDF, 27Kb) will help you focus on those negative influences that most pertain to you. Examining your routine honestly, and factoring in its effect on your body chemistry, will leave no doubt as to how your opportunities for weight loss are sabotaged.

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