Obese fathers could increase their children’s risk of obesity and diabetes-like illness

17 July 2013

 

Obese fathers could increase the risk of their children and their grandchildren to inherit obesity and develop diabetes-like symptoms.

Latest research from Fertility Coalition partner The Robinson Institute shows that a father’s diet changes the molecular makeup of sperm. With obese fathers, these changes may program the embryo for obesity, or metabolic disease later in life – even if the child eats healthily.