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What you eat could alter your unborn children and grandchildren’s genes and health outcomes

  • Written by Nathaniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Dakota
What you eat could alter your unborn children and grandchildren’s genes and health outcomesThe relatively new discipline of epigenetics explores how diet and nutrition can affect not only our own health but that of future generations.Drazen Zigic/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Within the last century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation.

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