Obese? Blame your grandfather!

Obese?

A father's metabolic health can be passed from generation to generation, affecting not only his children but more importantly his grandchildren, suggests a study.

The researchers discovered that male mice who are obese when they conceive are putting their children and grandchildren at significant risk of developing metabolic disease. They were amazed to find that the grandsons of the obese mice were also predisposed to metabolic disorders just as their fathers were. They also observed that in the great-grandsons, the metabolic health was improving significantly. By the third generation, the exaggerated response to a junk food diet was all but absent. What this shows is that it’s possible to break that cycle of metabolic disease, suggested the study. The researchers say it is still not entirely clear how this multi-generational programming is happening, but there appear to be clues within the sperm of the mice. (Read: Are you raising a fat kid?)

Source: IANS

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