Aside from lifestyle factors and dietary intake, your genetic makeup plays a major role in determining whether you are susceptible to certain chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension. Your genes control everything that makes you unique such as your eye color, hair color, height, and your genes even control the way you processes your nutrients. When you consume food it is broken down throughout your digestive tract and is absorbed into your bloodstream and transported to the cells in your body. Once the broken down nutrients enter your cells, your DNA (which is inside of the nucleus of your cells) directs these nutrients on where to go & what they will be made into (glycogen stores, proteins, etc.). Your genes control the way your cells grow, develop, and maintain themselves….inevitably controlling every aspect of how you function as an organism. Genes contain the codes that control the traits you express; they even contain the certain cod