News for the week of 4/4 - 4/10 (2)

Vegetarian ancestors may affect your own cancer risk

     Most people never would think that you should actually pay close attention to what your ancestors eat, but recent studies show that what your ancestors had eaten can affect your risk for specific diseases in the future. Cornell University has done a recent study that provides truth to that fact and they explained that "people who come from a line of mostly plant eaters, actually hurt there bodies with a fatty acid overload" when eating foods other than plants, especially meats and oils. The result is an increased risk of heart disease and even colon cancer. However, depending on where your ancestors are from, the risk for such diseases is at a lower or higher risk. In fact there is even a gene that some people can inherit from their ancestors eating only plants (FADS2).

    This article actually amazed me because I would never have thought that what my ancestors had eaten, can actually affect my own life and could put me potentially at risk for diseases. I think this is a great article for everyone to read because it makes many people aware that not only you should be careful of what your eating for your own life but possibly the lives of your future grandchildren to come. It also made me wonder, that maybe there are more things that our ancestors have eaten, that could potentially put us at risk for a variety of other diseases. I think this is the first step into discovering a greater variety of how are ancestors majorly impact our own lives and futures.





MLA citation:  Dier, Arden. "If Your Ancestors Were Vegetarians, It May Affect Your Cancer 
     Risk." Fox News 31 Mar. 2016: n. pag. Fox News. Web. 10 Apr. 2016. 
     
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