In mice, fathers can shape the health of their children through their diet (Representational)
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Fathers’ diet may affect their sons’ anxiety levels and their daughters’ metabolism even before they conceive, according to new research conducted on rats.
While a mouse father’s diet is known to impact the reproductive health of him and his offspring, the researchers said, it is not yet known how variations in the macronutrient composition of protein, fat and carbohydrates have different effects on the offspring’s health. It may or may not have a different impact.
The team of scientists, co-led by the University of Sydney, Australia, found that male rats fed a low-protein and high-carbohydrate diet were more likely to have high levels of anxiety in their male offspring.
They also found that daughters of male mice eating a high-fat diet were more likely to be born with more body fat and more biological indicators of metabolic disease.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, showed that in mice, fathers can shape the health of their children through their diet.
“It’s extraordinary that by adjusting[the ratio]of protein, fat and carbs in a father’s diet, we can influence specific characteristics of the health and behavior of his sons and daughters,” said the university’s Stephen Simpson. Here’s some important biology. doing work.” Sydney and co-senior author of the study.
For the study, researchers fed male mice one of 10 diets varying in the amount of protein, fat and carbohydrates, and then allowed them to mate with females raised on a standard diet. They then analyzed the behavior and physiology of the resulting offspring.
The team also found that men on low-protein diets also ate more food overall. However, macronutrient composition, along with calories, was found to influence the health of the mice’s offspring.
“Our study shows that it is not just eating too much or too little, but also the composition of the diet that can have an impact on future children,” said Romain Barres of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and co-senior author of the study. Is.” ,
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