How Kids Health Relates to Parents’ Nutritional and Lifestyle Choices

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This
week’s topic is on how our lifestyle choices affect our children. Specifically,
I will focus on nutrition and environmental exposures. I have discussed the
role of epigenetics and nutrigenomics in the past. For those of you who aren’t
familiar with what I am speaking of, they are the scientific terms that explain
how our environment and nutritional status effect how our genes express
themselves. This means that if one has a healthy diet or is conscious of environmental
exposures, they will less likely turn on “genetic switches” that lead to
diseases.

Passing On Epigenetics

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