ABSTRACT
Worldwide, researchers have been developing numerous strategies for management of noncommunicable chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but every strategy comes with an adverse effect, directly or indirectly. Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics are very interrelated terms. Terminologically, nutrigenomics is like other omics technologies, when high-throughput technologies applied to the field of nutrition. Nutrigenetics deals with the coordination of the genetic makeup of an individual and their response to various dietary nutrients, which paves a way to know the contrasting responses of people to various dietary nutrients. Though many literatures have related dietary habits to occurrence of cancer, specific bioactive components found in foods are also reported to provide prophylactic as well as therapeutic treatment to several stages of cancer. Nutritional modulation plays an important role in both the progression and prevention of CVDs. The fundamental goal of a gene-based diet is to develop a diet that caters to the health of the individual concerned.
