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Nutritional Science Program
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While the positive impacts of exercise/dietary therapy is well acknowledged,
it is actually difficult to practice it for a long term. In particular,
as one gets older, the individual difference of exercise compliance would
become bigger, due to the reduced muscle mass, joint abrasion and disordered
sense of balance. Besides, it is quite difficult to change one's tastes.
On the other hand, it is now possible to predict the development of some
lifestyle-related diseases, using gene analyses. It is reported that, for
example, obesity and diabetes can be observed at a constant rate, among
those with mutations in the specific sites of UCP1, ƒÀ3adrenergic receptor
and adiponectin genes (UCP1 and ƒÀ3adrenergic receptor are related to obesity,
and adiponectin genes are related to diabetes). Once the causes of a disease
are confirmed, it is then possible to identify the preventive methods for
it. As for the exercise/dietary therapy, however, the preventive mechanism
is not yet fully explored, and thus it is still unknown what type of exercise/dietary
therapy could be appropriate for those with mutations.
Under this circumstance, this program aims to explore the preventive mechanism
at the molecular level, so as to develop the personalized exercise/dietary
therapy, considering the genetic background.
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