Posted on 07/07/2024 5:56:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A study performed in mice has uncovered a potential new tool to combat the escalating issue of childhood obesity. The research suggests that a simple dietary change, in the form of a fish oil supplement taken by fathers, might help address this pressing health concern.
To find out whether paternal diet could influence offspring health, researchers gave male mice a high-fat diet with or without added fish oil. They found that the offspring of the males that consumed fish oil had a lower body weight and showed better metabolic health than the offspring of fathers not supplemented with fish oil.
"While further human studies are needed, this discovery opens a new frontier in our understanding of how parents, beyond just genetics, influence their offspring's well-being," said Latha Ramalingam. "Fish oil, a readily available and safe supplement, could become a powerful weapon in our fight for a healthier next generation."
The researchers say this is the first study to examine inheritance patterns exclusively in the paternal line. It builds on their previous work, which demonstrated the benefits of fish oil supplementation in mothers for reducing childhood obesity risk.
In the new study, which involved almost 150 mice, the researchers fed male mice a high-fat diet either with or without added fish oil. They were then mated with female mice that consumed a regular healthy low-fat diet.
The researchers found that offspring that were fed a low-fat healthy diet and fathered by males receiving fish oil weighed less at seven and 21 days than offspring of the males not receiving fish oil. Female offspring from males receiving fish oil also had improved metabolic health as measured by glucose clearance and insulin sensitivity.
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Don't tell me you don't have time. Mothers of yore who had waaaay more work than we'll ever know put a dinner on the table at night. Now we have crock pots and awesome stoves/ovens, better knives, refrigerators, Tupperware for storage, grocery stores five minutes away that have everything we could possibly want.
I dug and dug, unwilling to expend more than 30 minutes on this tripe: This ‘not recent’ study fails to identify which fish oil. Thus, all results are presumed biased.
Full disclosure: I have a working theory - with my own clinical evidence - that all fish oil supplements have very, very little (if any) viable O3 content due to required processing. If this study used Cod Liver oil, the additional vit A & D content would severely bias the study results.
If you read the study carefully, it has the same signatures as prior studies which brought us the ‘lipid hypothesis’ (one red flag).
The fact that they fail to identify the origin of the oil in any publicized data is yet another glaring red flag, imho.
Don’t run out and buy up ‘fish oil supplements’ just because a few enterprising researchers saw some beneficial (to their careers) correlation results in mice.
If the government really gave a crap, they’d have had a clever campaign akin to Ovaltine for “Eat your fish,” rather than throwing good $$ away on bad research to benefit supplement marketers (another glaring red flag, given the NIH/covid lesson).
Free advice.
Exactly correct. This is utter crap about fish oil— in the fathers???? That won’t change the metabolism the kids have from the father’s genes. Silly research.
The #1 reason for childhood obesity is SUGAR intake (in any form but in prepared foods as corn syrup/high fructose additives as sweeteners and bulk agents, and SUGAR as either cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup again in beverages- any brand of sodas one cares to consider. Huge consumption of these caused over the last 20 years a meteoric rise in Type 2 diabetes in juveniles (pre-20 year olds) most of whom were also grossly obese. Made even worse by lack of physical activity sitting in front of computer screens- no real exercise either in school or out of school. Fat pre-teen and teen.... slobs. And diabetic ones at that.
The ADA identified this years ago. Fish oil isn’t going to help the children if their daddys take it- and it won’t help them either if THEY take it.
Forgetful of the studies in 2013-14 that fish oil consumption by men greatly increases the risk of prostate cancers.
*FR threads back then reporting the studies and findings.
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