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Noncommunicable diseases cannot pass between people — or can they?
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Usually, spouses will be eating the same diet; children mostly would be, but sometimes they won't eat this or that. Wider families may well eat many of the same foods. Even at the level of a country, there will be a lot of similarities between the diets of the majority of the population. And we already know that what we eat makes a considerable difference to our microbiomes, as do the medicines we take. So it would seem likely that the diet remains the main driver of many of these diseases. Plus, of course, related people will have many of the same genetic weaknesses; combine genes with diet and you get an explanation of why some diseases are more prevalent in some places, why some run in familes, why the incidence varies over time, and so on. The microbiome would be the mechanism rather than the cause.Noncommunicable diseases cannot pass between people — or can they?
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