Genetic taste variation (PROP/PTC status) can be linked to CVD. What is your opinion?

04 April 2013 0 6K Report

Many researchers have proposed that PROP status can be linked to food consumption which can have an impact to individual's health; risk to diet-related diseases such as diabetes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18407743

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