A matter of taste

• Autores: Laura Mariottini
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2917, 2013, págs. 26-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Margottini interviews Paolo Gasparini, professor of medical genetics at the University of Trieste in Italy, about food preferences. He leads the Marco Polo Project along the Silk Road, which investigates the evolution and genetics of food preferences. Gasparini states that food preferences determine what people eat, and that has a huge impact on their health, especially in the long run. Conditions such as obesity or type 2 diabetes, which are so widespread today even in children, are largely related to food choices. So this is an important problem.