Hereditary Effects of Parental Lifestyle on the Health of Offspring (eBook)

Are My Grandparents to Blame?

Gert Maritz (Autor)

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2019
224 Seiten
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-3854-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;programmed"e; to become more susceptible to diseases such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, even if the children themselves adopt a healthy lifestyle. This "e;program"e; 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 "e;epidemic"e; that both the developed and developing worlds are experiencing at present, is largely due to this "e;programming"e; effect.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2019
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• ISBN-10: 1-5275-3854-0 / 1527538540
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-3854-2 / 9781527538542