“It’s positive..” Wow, you may get the sensation of amazing feeling of being a dad when you hear those words from your wife. But you may not be able to avoid bad thought coming into your mind, particularly about your baby’s health in the upcoming time. To make sure that your baby is in the best condition of health, you must pay full attention on the food and nutrition that your wife consumes. In fact, nutrition consumption will influence your baby growth, not only when it has not been unborn, but also to the next generation.

Talk about Epigenetic

The word Epigenetic may not sound familiar to you. Talking about generations cannot be separated from genetic things. Epigenetic is the word used to describe the changing process of characteristics that is genetically given caused by DNA modification process (the molecule that contains the genetic information of a person) without involving the changing of the DNA order.

One of the things than cause this changing is the DNA mutilation process, which means the DNA chemical modification process. The DNA mutilation process can be influenced by some nutrition consumption which is involved in the carbon compound metabolism, such as vitamin B (folate, vitamin B12, choline, and vitamin B6) and also some types of amino acid (methionine, serine, glycine and betaine). This modification process can change the characteristics or features of a person, and this change can be heritage for the next generation.

Changing Continues To Your Grandsons

The result of the research that is announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the food that is consumed by female mouse when it is pregnant can influence the characteristics of the children, and this characteristics change will influence the next generation. This research conducted by the expert from England is using the agouti mouse that has yellow fur color, having obesity, and having a higher level of tumor risk.

In fact, if this mouse is given the supplement contains folate, choline, betaine, vitamin B12, zinc, and methionine when it is pregnant, and the child that is born from it has different characteristics. It has thinner body and brown fur color. Moreover, this change is also happen to the next generations.

Watch Your Wife

Even though this research has not been conducted and proven on human, watching the nutrition on your wife’s pregnancy is important. The Journal of Nutrition shows that inappropriate nutrition for pregnant women, whether it is lack or exceed of nutrition, can give bad impact on your baby’s growth. Lack of nutrition on pregnant women can be an obstacle on baby’s growth, while exceed of nutrition can give the impact of physical defect. So make sure that your wife gets the appropriate nutrition when she is pregnant, because the nutrition consumption will strongly influence your baby.

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