The Impact of Parental Preconception Nutrition, Body Weight, and Exercise Habits on Offspring Health Outcomes: A Narrative Review
Alireza Jahan-Mihan, Jamisha Leftwich, Kristin Berg, Corinne Labyak, Reniel R Nodarse, Sarah Allen, Jennifer Griggs, Didier Vieau · 2024
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A child's health is partly written before conception, in both parents' bodies, and Alireza Jahan-Mihan and co-authors gather that evidence in this 2024 review. The older story starred the mother alone; the newer one gives the father's diet, weight, and exercise their own lines. Search across the major databases pulled trials, cohorts, and animal work together.
Fathers pass risk through chemical edits carried in sperm, tags and small RNAs that retune the child's genes toward diabetes and heart disease. Mothers' preconception nutrition shapes development from the first cells. Both parents' imbalances, the review stresses, can echo for decades in the offspring. The authors argue for couple-level coaching before pregnancy, not the usual mother-only advice after it, and flag where human evidence still trails the animal data.
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| CREATOR | Alireza Jahan-Mihan, Jamisha Leftwich, Kristin Berg, Corinne Labyak, Reniel R Nodarse, Sarah Allen, Jennifer Griggs, Didier Vieau |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 91 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |