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(Article Abstract)Epigenetic Inheritance of Disease Risk & What You Can Do About Itby Wilhelmi

A number of recent studies have been highlighting the importance of what your parents ate and their activities, including periods of stress, that result in passing on to you of predispositions for obesity, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes. If you have one or more of these predispositions, they may make you more susceptible to developing the problems associated with metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes, but they don't necessarily insure that you will. There are choices that minimize the probability, and these choices involve what you eat, when you eat and whether you move your body enough to keep your metabolic hardware working prop...

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(Article Abstract)B vitamins in mother's diet reduce colorectal cancer risk in offspringby Grossman

Tufts University, Health Sciences - BOSTON (June 9, 2011) - Mice born to mothers that are fed a diet supplemented with B vitamins are less likely to develop intestinal tumors, report scientists at the Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University.

Previous research in humans and mice suggests that B vitamins, particularly folate, play a role in the prevention of colorectal cancer. Using a mouse model of naturally occurring colorectal cancer, the USDA HNRCA scientists examined whether a mothers' B vitamin intake impacts her offspring's cancer risk. Mothers were fed diets containing supplemental, adequate or mildly deficient...

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(Article Abstract)You are what your mother ateby Genevieve Maul

University of Cambridge - Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring's long term health

Poor diet during pregnancy increases offspring's vulnerability to the effects of aging, new research has shown for the first time.

The research, by scientists from the University of Cambridge, provides important insight into why children born to mothers who consumed an unhealthy diet during pregnancy have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes (a significant contributing factor to heart disease and cancer) later in life.

"What is most exciting about these findings is that we are now starting to really understand how ...

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(Article Abstract)Yo-yo dieting alters genes linked with stressby Bates

Society for Neuroscience - Animal study shows exposure to stress after dieting increases binge eating

Washington, DC — Stressed-out mice with a history of dieting ate more high-fat foods than similarly stressed mice not previously on diets, according to a new study in the Dec. 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that moderate diets change how the brain responds to stress and may make crash dieters more susceptible to weight gain.

In this study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania led by Bale, PhD, examined the behavior and hormone levels of mice on limited diets. After three weeks of fewer calories, the mice lost 10 ...

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