Posted by Barbara Lavery — April 9, 2008 3:37 am

This week and next, my favorite shopping haunts are sharing SoHo space with Navigenics. I shop in SoHo for frocks at Legacy, cocktails at Thom Bar, and sushi at Blue Ribbon, but this week I can go to Soho and spit to find out what my genes might tell me about the future of my health. Navigenics can provide me with an analysis of my predisposition for disease and educate me on what to do about preventing bad things from happening. Do I really want to know the 17 diseases and conditions, including breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes I might be prone to? I think I do but I am not sure - I already have risk factors in my family history that I should pay attention to and sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I recently saw David Duncan present his genetic risk for cardiovascular disease - funnily enough as he talked about his high risk and the need to manage his diet he was slurping from a coke can so there you go...

I guess I hesitate to know more that will require me to do more as my dance card is pretty full as it is. I really should know and one day soon I will spit for science but I have some thinking to do first. The challenge, as ever, will be in changing people's behavior - a difficult task in a society who have been led to expect that there is a pill for everything and are also bombarded with advertising for less than healthy foods...

What I do know is the dilemma will likely result in some shopping therapy a la Catherine Malandrino - and for those who really know me, they know I'm genetically inclined to shopping in SoHo...

Author Tags: genes, SOHO, Navigenics

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David Collin - May 2, 2008, 9:50 am
So, Barbara, how's it coming? Did you take the plunge, or...go shopping? David

David Collin - May 10, 2008, 9:28 am
So, what do you think of this? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/24/BU35109V11.DTL And this? http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/299/11/1320

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