It's already been established that a woman's diet can affect a baby's health, but it now appears that mothers aren't the only ones: what a father eats can have an impact on his children's heatlh as well. A new study details how paternal diet can increase production of cholesterol synthesis genes in first-generation offspring.
The study shows that environmental cues, including diet, influence genes in mammals from one generation to the next, suggesting paternal environmental effects may play a more important role in complex diseases such as diabetes and heart disease than previously believed.
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