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Old 08-24-2012, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ilovetv View Post
I think you've started on a mistaken premise: that people believe "everything" is genetic regarding diseases.

From all the many discussions here about diet/nutrition being "everything" to prevention of dreaded disease, it has been said many times in all honesty that inherited genetics can--and do--often over-ride the best of nutritional and healthy lifestyle habits.

And nobody has said to avoid improving one's lifestyle/eating habits because their genes will out-gun them anyway.

Just as genetics is not "everything" to disease acquisition or not, neither is dietary intake and exercise "everything" to preventing it.
In a recent discussion, which you took part in, there were one or two comments stating that "it's all genetic", and no one replied to it. No one challenged it. So I wondered if perhaps everyone was in agreement with it.
Rather than make it something between me and the poster(s) I thought I would open it up to all those who might be interested.