Posted on 04/28/2010 6:19:43 PM PDT by decimon
While cancer victims usually blame themselves - I shouldn't have smoked, should have eaten better, should have exercised - or the cruelty of chance, they may now have a new scapegoat: Grandma.
Eating poorly during pregnancy can increase your children's and your grandchildren's risk of cancer, even if they themselves eat healthily, a new study on rats suggests.
The risk associated with high-fat diets, especially those high in omega-6 fatty acids, "can be passed from one generation to another without any further exposure," said lead researcher Sonia de Assis of Georgetown University.
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This should not imply that fat causes cancer - many fats are quite good for you, after all. But it is more bad news for omega-6 fatty acids, found in corn oil and most non-grass-fed meats.
Omega 6s, while essential to a healthy diet, should be balanced with omega 3s. The optimum ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 is likely between 4:1 to 1:1, but in the typical American diet the ratio is more like between 20 and 16:1. This imbalance has previously been linked to a host of health problems, including depression, infertility, heart disease and, yes, cancer.
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Legacy ping.
Old news.
My granma figured that one out.
I recall this logic from the forced slavery immigration of early America - the slaves that survived the journey across the Atlantic with low water and nutritional rations, also perpetuated some related weaknesses in diet/physiology that have been passed along.
Glad my mom ate like a pig...I hate it for folk whose moms ate like rats. ;-)>
They’re not so bad - I like them on Finn Crisp crackers with a dash of hot sauce.
epigenetics?
Oh I love those with crackers and Louisiana hot sauce too. I eat them alone because my son and hubby can’t stand the smell.
Would this fit into epigenetics? Too far beyond me to guess.
I LOVE those things!
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