Parental diet affects sperm and health of future offspring

[Northerner]

When parents eat low-protein or high-fat diets it can lead to metabolic disorders in their adult offspring. Now, an international team led by researchers at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) have identified a key player and the molecular events underlying this phenomenon in mice.

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is a school of thought that focuses on how prenatal factors such as stress and diet impact the development of diseases when children reach adulthood. Experimental evidence indicates that environmental factors that affect parents do play a role in reprogramming the health of their offspring throughout their lifespan. In particular, parental low-protein diets are known to be related to metabolic disorders in their children, such as diabetes.

Parental diet affects sperm and health of future offspring

When parents eat low-protein or high-fat diets it can lead to metabolic disorders in their adult offspring. Now, an international team has identified a key player and the molecular events underlying this phenomenon in mice.

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[mikeyB]

That would generally account for the health of the population and the infant and child death rate gradually improving through a Victorian times, and life expectancy. So really, it’s been empirically known for around 150 years.

 

[trophywench]

...and more recently why a number of babies born during and shortly after the second World War, had various deficiencies eg lousy teeth which couldn't hold an ordinary amalgam filling.

 

[grovesy]

...and more recently why a number of babies born during and shortly after the second World War, had various deficiencies eg lousy teeth which couldn't hold an ordinary amalgam filling.

It was the babies that were born after the worst starvation that were affected. The information from the this period was used to try and institute pre- conceptual care not just for Diabetics. Back in1984, when I was on a Refresher course we had some lectures on it.