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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : October 23, 2018 9:23 AM IST
New demands and responsibilities may take a toll on the mental health of new dads.
A new study has linked the development of type 2 diabetes and impaired metabolic health individuals to their parents' poor diet. According to the findings of the study, there is an increasing evidence that fathers play an important role in obesity and metabolic programming of their offspring.
The new study has been published in the journal Diabetes. According to the Medical News report, the researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that paternal exercise has a significant impact on the metabolic health of their offspring well into adulthood.
The study was led by Laurie Goodyear, PhD, senior investigator and head of the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The study was co-led by Kristin Stanford, PhD, a physiology and cell biology researcher who is now with The Ohio State University College of Medicine at the Wexner Medical Center.
Researchers investigated how a father's exercise regimen would affect his offspring's metabolic health. They used a mouse model, they fed male mice either a normal diet or a high-fat diet for three weeks. Some mice from each diet group were sedentary and some exercised freely. After three weeks, the mice bred and their offspring ate a normal diet under sedentary conditions for a year.
According to the researchers, the adult offspring from the mice who exercised had decreased body weight, improved glucose metabolism, and a decreased fat mass.
Thus, as per as the researchers the results of the study shows how important it is for men exercise prior to conceiving because it will have lifelong health effects on the offspring. The team also found that exercise caused changes in the genetic expression of the father's sperm that suppress poor dietary effects and transfer to the offspring.
