Interesting research presented in this month’s Nature metabolism section: Hunger marks offsprings genome by Jiménez-Chillarón et. al. on underfed pregnant mice and how it affects the male offspring’s litter (think: grandchildren) in health risk of metabolic diseases such as diabetes. This may be an indication on the importance of pre-, peri-natal care of the expectant mother and its affects on the development for both genotype– all or part of the genetic constitution of an individual or group- and phenotype -the observable properties of an organism that are produced by the interaction of the genotype and the environment.
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Nutrition Facts
CDC second report on nutrient status of US population
Nutrition Status of the US population 2014 report/CDC
For details on the report or a quick factsheet on the findings.
Maybe all of the health education and nutrition promotions have started to see results. As seen by the 43% decline in the rate of childhood obesity published in JAMA.
its a NUTTY, NUTTYgrrl world... 