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You Are What Your Dad Ate
Freshly Exhumed writes "What a father eats before his child is conceived may influence the chance a baby will be born with a birth defect, a new study suggests. Much of the focus on how diet relates to birth has been done on moms. A father's diet before conception plays a crucial role in the health of his offspring, researchers in Canada suggest. Sarah Kimmins, a researcher at McGill University in Montreal, said the study focused on vitamin B9, also known as folate, which is found in green leafy vegetables, cereal, fruit and meat. The researchers found that the mouse offspring of folate-deficient fathers had a 30 percent increased risk of birth defects, compared to those offspring who had received a sufficient amount of folate."
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I am my mother?
Given the average North American diet, that doesn't sound like a good thing. ;-)
that's okay, this is slashdot, most of us aren't getting laid, so we don't have to worry about our cheetos/cherry coke sperm hitting anything but the keyboard...
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It's even in beer.
No wonder my daughter turned out to be a genius. Guess I've got nothing to worry about.
The more likely reason is she isn't really your daughter.
So, in pretty much EVERYTHING then?
Yes, but the levels of B9 may be benign.
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
Yeah, but you're not going to get laid looking *that* yellow.
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I already told my wife that if she wants kids she will have to folate me.