Friday, July 12, 2013

Obese dads pass on predisposition to obesity and metabolic disorders to their kids

[unable to retrieve full-text content]If you are obese and hope to be a father, here's another reason to lose weight: your children and grandchildren may inherit your waistline or metabolic disorders. Scientists have discovered in mice that obese fathers, even those with no symptoms of diabetes, passed this negative trait on most frequently to their daughters. Sons don't dodge this genetic bullet either -- both sons and daughters of obese fathers have increased risks of developing metabolic diseases.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/living_well/~3/_yIOTUXTcv4/130711135450.htm

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