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SHOULD YOU GO FOR GENETIC TESTING?

Dancer, choreographer and RockingnHeels workout founder Nkateko “Takkies” Dinwiddy, 28, has 270k online followers. She also has a new baby, a big appetite and a sweet tooth she’d been indulging. So, when she was approached by a gene-testing company in June with an offer to analyse her cell DNA, and “establish scientifically” what exercise and eating routine was best suited to her, she leapt at it – as millions of people worldwide are now doing.

“The company had seen on my social media that I was trying a 14-day plant-based diet to reset my body,” Takkies says. “They said gene-testing could tell me if this was the best diet for my body and if my

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