Your Diet Affects Your Grandchildren's DNA, Scientists Say
Live Science
You are
what you eat, the saying goes. And, according to two new genetic studies, you are what your mother, father, grandparents and great-grandparents ate, too.
Diet, be it poor or healthy, can so alter the nature of one’s DNA that those changes can be passed on to the progeny. While this much has been speculated for years, researchers in cialis online two independent studies have found ways in which this likely is happening.
The findings, which involve epigenetics, may help explain the increased genetic risk that children face
compared to their parents for diseases such as obesity and diabetes. READ
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Posted by hive
on Jul 28 2012. Filed under Science and Nature.
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