Researchers, intrigued with advances in DNA analysis, have discovered
more and more evidence that what your progenitors did, how they
exercised, how they ate, and what their addictions were, affect your
health today. Doctor Claudia Aguirre of the Huffington Post, see
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-claudia-aguirre/how-diet-changes-your-dna_b_7129758.html,
has determined that the lack of certain essential foods in your
parents' diet can increase the probably that you will get diabetes,
be obese, and contract cardiovascular disease. She was also able to
discover that there are dietary changes that will increase the number
of neurons a child's body will make, thus making children smarter.
Christopher
Wanjek, of Lifescience.com, see
http://www.livescience.com/21902-diet-epigenetics-grandchildren.html,
seconds what Claudia stated, only he published his findings three
years ago. Deficient parental diets cause health problems for their
children, including obesity and diabetes. It's quite interesting that
two of the largest health epidemics today are diabetes and obesity.
And diabetes is the seventh largest cause of death.
Scientists,
of course, don't always agree. The scientists in charge of study
about how diet affects human DNA in the U.K., see
http://metro.co.uk/2012/09/21/feeding-your-dna-does-your-diet-affect-your-genes-581760/
never came to a conclusion which foods would help parents gift their
children healthy bodies, but they did gain an understanding that what
the parents consumed changed what physical traits their children
inherited.
Dr.
Aguirre also has show how parental exercise can affect the brain
health of the children of those who exercise. See
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-claudia-aguirre/your-brain-on-exercise_b_7066856.html
.
Other
epigeneticists have discovered how better nutrition can affect the
DNA you pass down, most importantly the mother, but also, the father
of any and every child. See
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/nutrition/.
So your children will get to deal with how well you live, eat, and
exercise, and what you hand down to them will very likely largely
determine the quality of their lives.
Other Sources:
Sources:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
