HEALTH & HEALING Your bad eating


and lifestyle habits can affect your kids and their kids


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By David Cornish


wenty one year old Momoyo, from Japan, knows she hasn’t been so healthy since moving to Adelaide for study. She eats hamburgers rather than her


mother’s noodles, and she suspects she smokes and drinks too much. Momoyo is having fun. However, she doesn’t realise that her diet and lifestyle might harm not just her long-term health but the health of her children and grandchildren. Scientists in the field of epigenetics say


that if we damage our health, at any time of life, we’re likely to change the way our genes perform, increasing our risk of diseases such as diabetes, cancer and obesity. And worse, these epigenetic alterations can be passed to our progeny through the protein molecules in our chromosomes.


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The message from epigenetic scientists is unequivocal: food, lifestyle and the environment can all modify genes for good or bad. Heed the scientists’ message and you will unquestionably


benefi t, as will your offspring, and their offspring. However, it’s possibly not too late, as supplementation and eating healthily can make a difference.


It seems that we have more DNA instruction than we need, and not all genes are equally ‘active’. For example, liver cells have the same DNA molecule as hair cells, but in liver cells, hair-growing capacity is blocked. This happens when certain molecules attach to genes to nullify one or more of the gene’s capabilities, a process known as methylation. As we age, our genes tend to become more methylated. They might also become methylated when our bodies are abused- for example, when we smoke, eat badly, or are exposed to dangerous toxins. Methylation is not necessarily bad,


but, when capabilities of parts of genes essential to health are nullified, risk of disease increases.The long-term impact of gene methylation was demonstrated in a protracted study of a famine in Holland in World War Two. During a time known as the Hungry Winter, children in western


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