One More Thing To Blame Your Mother For - Her Diet During Pregnancy May Have Made You Obese

In the 'we need to make sure all people can abdicate any responsibility for their actions' department, a new study makes obesity exculpatory by determining that a mother's nutrition during pregnancy influences the child's risk of obesity many years later. Whew.  And here you were worried too many pizzas would influence the risk of obesity. The downside to epigenetics studies is that they run the risk of turning legitimate aspects of biology into the DNA equivalent of evolutionary psychology by making bizarre correlation-causation claims. read more

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