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Roger Godschalk, Ph.D, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and his colleagues looked at two groups of families with a low and high income, respectively as income generally correlates to lifestyle choices of the parents. For instance, fathers in the low income group were more often cigarette smokers than fathers in the high income group. Researchers found DNA mutations were more frequent in low income fathers. These results suggest that the parents living conditions before conception may directly impact the health of their
children. The research has been published in The FASEB Journal. Your cat may give you TB Kids living with grandparents may be obese In the past, and in traditional societies today, grandparental care has always been crucial to improving child survival rates, The Independent reported. "Grandmother investment aimed at improving grandchildren's nutrition in subsistence societies may have different outcomes in contemporary affluent societies," researchers said. The researchers compared the weight of children at the age of three who were cared for mainly by their grandmothers with those cared for by their parents. Overall, 23.6 per cent of the children were overweight. Red meat tied to worse colon cancer outcomes People who report eating the most red and processed meat before being diagnosed with colon cancer are more likely to die during the next eight years, according to a new study. "It's another important reason to follow the guidelines to limit the intake of red and processed meat," said Marjorie McCullough, the study's lead author from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta. — Agencies
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Moderate paternal exposures, like smoking, can raise the number of mutations passed on to the coming generations, a new research has suggested. Gene mutations caused by a father's lifestyle can be inherited by his children, even if those mutations occurred before conception. The findings also show that mutations in the germ-line are present in all cells of the children, including their own germ cells. This means that a father's lifestyle has the potential to affect the DNA of multiple generations and not just his immediate offspring.
Cat owners may be at risk of catching tuberculosis from their pet felines, UK experts have warned. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh found that growing numbers of domestic cats are being infected with the deadly form of tuberculosis that is normally found in cattle and badgers. It is feared one in a thousand could be carrying the mycobacteria, a much higher number than first thought, the Daily Express reported. Cats may be picking up the disease while exploring countryside badger setts or coming into contact with infected rodents and cattle or contaminated milk, veterinarians believe. The new research found that in one year 17 per cent of the 187 cats diagnosed with TB had the bovine strain. Mycobacterium bovis known as bovine TB is the causative agent of tuberculosis in cattle and is related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis - the bacterium which causes the disease in humans. M bovis can also jump the species barrier and cause tuberculosis in humans, said Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore, who led the research team. UK's chief veterinary officer Nigel Gibbens said that cats did present a growing threat to humans. The study was published in the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 
Children looked after by their grandparents are more likely to be overweight and obese, claims a new study. Researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland, studied 9,000 families in the UK and found that one in every three children aged three who were looked after by grandparents was obese.
The findings suggested grandparents were exacerbating the trend towards less healthy eating patterns, experts said. Aric Sigman, a health education lecturer and psychologist, said grandparents today are older than ever, which means "their nutritional understanding is from a different era so their simple understanding of what makes children fat is not as developed as that of later generations". The study was published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.