In order to better understand the role a father's diet plays in the health of their offspring, the researchers examined mice. They compared the offspring of fathers with insufficient folate in their diets with the offspring of fathers whose diets contained sufficient levels of the vitamin. In the end, they found that paternal folate deficiency was associated with an increased level of birth defects of various kinds in the offspring.

You Are What Your Father Eats: Dad's Diet Impacts Unborn Children Thursday, December 12, 2013 @ 9:29pm