My Mother was a victim of Alzheimer's, my Dad an alcoholic.
Perhaps, one or both of your parent's had cancer, heart disease, dementia, or was a diabetic.
Does that mean you are already predestined to suffer the same fate? In this article I will attempt to share what some of the research says, plus share my own beliefs.
If you are doomed to end up with a disease simply because it is or was very prominent in your family history, then that, indeed, would be discouraging because that would mean you could do absolutely nothing to prevent it.
Basically, however, what I have found in my research so far is that there are a lot of things you can do to reduce your odds of acquiring the most fearful illnesses that plagued other family members.
It probably is true that the more the dreaded disease prevailed in your family history, the more dominant is the gene (or genes) and the more likely you are to end up with the same type of illness or disease.
Thus, it may make sense even while you are young, to become familiar with what happened to close relatives who are older than you or who are deceased.
Research has shown that diet and nutrition greatly affect who we are and the level of our everyday health.
Unfortunately, to make things more complicated for someone who is trying to choose an extremely nutritious diet, we don't all exactly get the same results from eating the same foods.
Otherwise, one person may eat a pretty unhealthy type of diet and appear to be in great health, while another person on the same diet experiences high cholesterol, high blood pressure, weight gain, etc.
Life doesn't always seem to treat us fair that way, or maybe that's just one thing that makes life so interesting and challenging! While it is true that we don't all respond in exactly the same way to what we eat, there are some things that are beneficial to just about everyone.
Those of us who know that in our DNA there are some undesirable diseases or traits, may just have to work a bit harder if we are going to avoid these things we don't want! Personally, I've taken the approach of learning as much as I can about nutrition in order to reduce my chances of ending up with some of the negatives that may be in my DNA.
So here's a few tips that I believe can generally apply to everyone who wants to live a good quality, healthy life.
Eat a healthy diet with plenty of fruits, veggies, not many processed foods, take good vitamin and mineral supplements, try to avoid GMO foods as much as possible, and eat very little sugar.
Get plenty of exercise and avoid stress.
Remember that stress can be harmful to your health and the exercise is a good way to reduce your stress.
Also, adequate sleep is very important.
Remember, our goal here is to do the best we can to not only live a good quality, healthy life, but to actually avoid some of the negatives that our parents or other relatives experienced.
By developing good habits to combat bad genes, you can reduce the odds of getting an unfortunate illness or disease for yourself.