Nutrition

New nutrition study findings have been reported from Erasmus Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 10th, 2010

Fresh data on nutrition are presented in the report 'Interactions between dietary vitamin E intake and SIRT1 genetic variation influence body mass index.' "Genetic variation in SIRT1 has been associated with body mass index (BMI) and risk of obesity. SIRT1 may be influenced by diet," researchers in Netherlands report.

"We studied the gene-diet interaction on BMI at the SIRT1 locus. In 4575 elderly men and women in the population-based Rotterdam Study, the effect on BMI of 3 SIRT1 genetic variants (rs7895833, rs1467568, and haplotype 1) was studied in relation to dietary intakes of energy, fat, calcium, milk, antioxidant vitamins, and niacin. There was no difference in...

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