Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/pTL7gMnka1s   Feeding your infant to excess triggers undesirable genetic changes that could condemn the child to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.  Pediatricians and molecular geneticists at Texas’ Baylor College of Medicine now report that overfed mouse neonates develop lifelong DNA methylation abnormalities.   These genetic changes led to premature aging patterns of the pancreas.  That, in turn, produces less robust insulin production with diabetes and all its dire consequences.   Parental responsibility for good child nutrition begins at birth.  This study adds to other than emphasize that the effects of an unbalanced diet are difficult if not impossible to correct.   Ge Li, Tihomira D Petkova, Eleonora Laritsky, Noah Kessler, Maria S Baker, Shaoyu Zhu, Robert A Waterland. Early postnatal overnutrition accelerates aging-associated epigenetic drift in pancreatic islets. Environmental Epigenetics, 2019; 5 (3) DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvz015   #Overfeeding #diabetes #DNAmethylation