Obesity is passed on down generations

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3083, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Blame grandpa if people get tat eating junk food. It seems that the grandsons of pudgy male mice are more susceptible to the health effects of a bad diet even if their fathers are lean and healthy. Catherine Suter at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney and her colleagues found that unlike the offspring of lean males, both the sons and grandsons of obese ones were more likely to show the early signs of fatty liver disease and diabetes when given a junk-food diet