The Epigenetics Obesity Dream

Obesity can be a “legacy” passed on to succeeding generations, not only for genetic reasons but for epigenetic ones.

Epigenetics and Grandkids

Research proves that some epigenetic changes can be passed along to children and even grandchildren.

What’s Up With Epigenetics?

As if the multi-factorial plague of obesity were not complicated enough already, it seems that epigenetics must be counted in the equation.

Antibiotics, Prematurity, Ototoxicity, Obesity, and Epigenetics

As Childhood Obesity News recently pointed out, deaf children are at greater risk of becoming obese, and that is only one aspect of a complicated five-way relationship between hearing loss, obesity, prematurity, antibiotics, and the passing along of somatic liabilities to descendents. One corner of the puzzle was described by Mathew Dearnaley for the New […]

The 7th of the 9 Truths

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder all run in families. Which exact genes are responsible, is still a mystery.

Genes, From Must to Maybe

It looks as though a person’s genetic makeup does not actually imply inexorable fate but resembles something more like a set of very strong suggestions.