Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science

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178. Are the health outcomes comparable? Paraphrasing Springsteen,"It's hard to be a saint in the city."

And it's hard to be healthy on a conventional contemporary American diet. eg. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1208169

http://www.marthaherbert.org/library/EverydayEpigenetics-fromMolectoPublicHeatlhLifestyle-NAJMS2013.pdf

PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE EPIGENETICS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED NOW

At present we already know enough to improve the everyday
epigenetics of vast numbers of people. The problem here is
not scientific but economic and political. While targeted
epigenetic treatments may emerge in the future, and while
some of them may turn out to be benign, we do not have to
sit on our hands doing nothing while we wait for these
clinical trials to proceed (and often fail). For myriad reasons
a concerted attempt to improve the baseline everyday
epigenetics of the general population, and particularly the at
risk populations, is a path that we need to take as soon as
possible to reduce the comorbidity patterns and suffering we
are facing in autism spectrum disorder as well as many other
severe health conditions such as diabetes and obesity where
very similar considerations apply. The political and
economic programs are spelled out provocatively in a New
England Journal of Medicine guest editorial in the fall of
2012 entitled “What’s Preventing Us from Preventing Type
II Diabetes?”36 where it is shown that we know how to
prevent a large proportion of the illness on which we are
spending $750 billion per year in the US - it would basically
require lifestyle coaching in diet and exercise - and yet we do
not do it.
It may well take a grass roots epigenetics/lifestyle medicine
revolution to shake off the worsening health trends we are
facing in the setting of a progressively sicker and more
endangered planet. In order to improve our diet, reduce
toxins, allergens and infection, reduce stress and increase
exercise and sleep and better nurture each other, we not only
need to make healthy personal choices but aggregate these
together to make healthier social and planetary choices. Let
everyday epigenetics inform science of what is possible so
that we can respond on an appropriate scale to the magnitude
of the crisis we are facing.

32. Fradkin JE, Roberts BT, Rodgers GP. What's preventing us from preventing type 2 diabetes? N Engl J Med. 2012;367(13):1177-1179.

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http://www.ewg.org/research/ewgs-dietary-guidelines
http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php

http://drhyman.com/blog/2015/05/21/eat-healthy-on-a-budget-with-these-strategies/
http://robynobrien.com/real-people-real-budgets-can-afford-organic-food/
http://foodbabe.com/2013/05/20/how-to-eat-organic-on-a-budget/