Very interesting study! Hope they follow it up.
Full story at
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16004880.htm

>You are not just what you eat, but what your mother and your
grandmother ate as well.

A study at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute found that a
pregnant mouse's diet can affect the health of her grandchildren.

"Things like this probably go on in humans, too," said molecular
geneticist Kenneth Beckman of CHORI, an author of the study.

Previously, scientists thought parents passed their genes on to their
offspring, and no farther. But recent studies have suggested that
environmental influences on those genes can also be inherited.

The new study, led by Beckman and molecular geneticist David Martin of
CHORI, is the first to show that those environmental influences can be
passed on to grandchildren.

"The implications for public health are enormous," said nutritional
epigeneticist Robert Waterland of Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, who is doing similar research. "Most people don't want to
believe this kind of inheritance is real. We want to believe that
everything is encoded in the genes."<

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