The Houston Chronicle – Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz
Dad’s have some awesome powers that we think should get daily attention. New research shows just how influential your choices are in determining the health and happiness of your future children. It’s easy to comprehend that a woman’s lifestyle choices directly affect conception, the health of a fetus and the growing child. But our expanding knowledge of how everyday habits can turn genes on and off (for better and worse) and how those changes can be inherited by subsequent generations shines the spotlight on Dad’s lifestyle choices.