The father's diet may affect the health of her daughter
Bauman
2010 October 26th
new research found that the parent's diet may affect the daughter's growth After the health. This study reveals for the first time that father's health may have a certain effect on the health of children.
research conducted by Australian researchers fed a group of adult male rats 40% more calories than normal mice. As expected, those male rats gain weight and suffer from adult onset diabetes. The symptom is that the body can not use insulin normally. Insulin is a hormone that converts food into energy.
this has affected the female immature rats born by obese males. Although female young rats did not increase their weight, when they entered adulthood, there were some symptoms before diabetes, including higher blood sugar than normal, and the symptoms increased over time.
Mike Skinner is a professor of reproductive biology at Washington State University. "The researchers found that the nutrition of adult men, especially the high fat diet, could affect the formation of sperm, which would have an impact on his daughter," he said. A daughter can develop symptoms similar to diabetes, and this is entirely due to the nutritional intake of her father. The discovery of
belongs to the field of developmental genetics currently under development. The scientific theory is that changing the environmental factors of parents' sperm and biological properties of eggs will eventually affect the next generation.
Skinner said that this research in Australia is the first in this field. The reason is that people have long known that if a pregnant woman is exposed to harmful substances, the health of the fetus will be affected.
he said, "but we have never realized that the environmental injuries that fathers have experienced, such as nutrition and high fat intake in this study, are also very important to the health of children. So I think this may be very important for the society.
Skinner pointed out that developmental genetics and deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA, have different effects on human health. As a genetic material to determine the unique traits and personality of a creature, deoxyribonucleic acid can cause some people to have a risk of a disease, but these people may never suffer from the disease; and developmental genetics may cause people to be ill.
Skinner said that developmental genetics can lead to an early examination to find out whether there is an environmental impact on a disease that has been formed many years ago to play a role in the defense of disease.
, for example, he said: "if you have a 98% chance of developing breast cancer, what we can do in the early stage may be treatment. I think that with the results of this study, we have a better understanding of molecular based diseases, so we can also develop preventive drugs in this respect.
research papers on how father's eating habits affect their daughter's health and comments by Professor Mike Skinner of Washington State University are published in the latest issue of the nature science and technology journal.