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    Personalized Diets: Can Your Genes Really Tell You What To Eat?

    There's an explosion of interest in personalized diet approaches and at-home test kits are popping up everywhere. Part of the approach includes analyzing your DNA, but genes can only tell us so much.
    by Allison Aubrey Jan 22, 2018 2 minutes
    Source: Jenn Liv for NPR

    The idea that each of us has a unique nutrition blueprint within our genes is a delicious concept.

    Perhaps, this helps explain the growth in personalized nutrition testing and services such as Habit, Profile Precise and Nutrigenomix.

    So, what exactly can these tests tell you?

    Kimberly Desjardine, 52, decided to try Habit last fall. She's very active. She plays tennis, practices yoga and walks regularly. "But

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