Like a protein rich diet that the healthy genes need to prod

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Like a protein rich diet that the healthy genes need to produce amino acids, the healthy genes are diminishing as more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle, in which they tend to cook less, eating more processed food and fast food.

The comparison made at the beginning of the sentence does not make sense. While it could make at least a little sense to say something that compares a decrease in consumption of protein rich diets to a decrease in healthy genes, this sentence says that "a," meaning "one particular" protein rich diet is diminishing, a nonsensical statement, and attempts to somehow compare that change to a change in "the healthy genes," without indicating which genes "the healthy genes" are. The beginning of the sentence is a mess.

Regarding the end of the sentence, there is no need for a comma before "and" and there is no flaw in parallel structure. The end of the sentence is fine, as "eating more processed food and fast food" is not a continuation of a list that begins with "they tend to cook less." Rather, "eating more processed food and fast food" is a modifier that modifies the entire preceding clause, "they tend to cook less."

This sentence is confusing and nonsensical. Archived.

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