Father's Diet Can Cause Obesity!

There has been some evidence recently that the diet and activities of parents can affect the activation of genes while a baby is developing in the uterus. This can affect the child throughout their life.

In studies of identical twins, with the same genetic material, it has been found that certain genes (coding for a protein called Su(var) ) could be activated in one of the twins, who becomes fat, while not in the other.

To study this further researchers fed male mice a diet high in processed sugars and found that, compared to controls, their children had this gene activated.

I would think this result would be the same in humans. A father whose diet is high in processed sugars would make it more likely that his children are fat, and thereby at higher risk for diabetes and heart disease.

So if you want your children to be healthy you need to eat properly!