Shortly before this year’s IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo, I read a newspaper article on how doctors, by using genetic science, will be able to predict someday what diseases an individual is susceptible to.
I thought, wow, the mass media will be discussing terms such as "gene expression" and "nutrigenomics" in a context that mainstream readers will readily understand. But then to my disappointment (although not necessarily surprise), the remainder of the article focused on how most people may not…