Hereditary Effects of Parental Lifestyle on the Health of Offspring: Are My Grandparents to Blame? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527537118)

This volume addresses the impact of grand-parental and parental lifestyle on the health in the lives of their children and grand-children. It is important to note that eating habits, smoking or drinking, or using dietary supplements by grand-parents and parents during pregnancy and lactation, can have an effect on their offspring. As a consequence, their children are â oeprogrammed⠝ to become more susceptible to diseases such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, even if the children themselves adopt a healthy lifestyle. This â oeprogram⠝ is carried over to several generations, implying that the descendants of those with unhealthy lifestyles will suffer from those life choices. There is growing evidence that the obesity and diabetes â oeepidemic⠝ that both the developed and developing worlds are experiencing at present, is largely due to this â oeprogramming⠝ effect.

Author: Gert Maritz
ISBN-10: 1527537110
ISBN-13: 9781527537118
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.70d