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When we have huge numbers, especially in Indonesia that included in the biggest five countries having diabetes prevalence in the world, to be fixed. We need a population approach that promotes healthy diets and lifestyles, from early life onwards and this is our responsibility as healthcare such as public health workers and nutritionists. Hope you got the point from this public health message and eager to learn more, applied a good one modern lifestyle with balanced  nutrition, exercise regularly, good sleep, steady mental health, less stress, and be grateful. 

cardiometabolic diseases and genes-nutrient interaction Is our DNA can be predominantly predisposition as cardiometabolic diseases ? This statement easily comes up in our mind due to some people more easily get the cardiometabolic disease than others do. These problems pop up because of their genetic makeup. Is our DNA a really matter for us? The answer is slight no. The DNA factor might be not as important as you assume. Less than 10% of cardiometabolic diseases can be explained from genes alone. Let me tell you, for instance, the relationship between genes and cardiometabolic diseases is not directly related. There is a bridge between those aspects, which is an environment. When people carrier “bad genes” spend their lives in a healthy environment, their chance of getting cardiometabolic diseases are lower than people who live in an unhealthy environment. That would be an association between  Cardiometabolic diseases, genes, and lifestyles . Not all case