Choice of Sports and Diet Father, Affect Child Health

Many people know that women's health, including exercise habits and diet, can have a health impact on the baby they contain. Many women try to reduce excess weight and see a doctor to optimize their health. Not much is known about the father's choice of exercise and diet, until recently.

Matthew Hurt teaches his children to play baseball. He wants them to enjoy sports.

"I want this to be their natural habit. I don't want them to feel this is a task. I want them to play outside the home, be active and enjoy life. "

A study at Wexner Medical Center, Ohio University, examined the impact of the exercise habits of fathers on their offspring. Kristin Stanford, member of the Research Center for Diabetes and Metabolism in Ohio, led the study. The results show that even light exercise affects their offspring.

"... there is an increase in metabolism in their offspring. "Increase glucose metabolism, weight loss, and insulin sensitivity of their offspring," Kristin said.

The WHO World Health Organization says one in four adults worldwide is very inactive. This increases the risk of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes.

Disliking exercise and being active outside the home also has social and economic consequences.

The Ohio University study was conducted on mice. More things have to be done to find out what the effects that mice experience, also on humans.

"The idea is that if the father wants to have children, if they like to exercise - maybe one month becomes a fertilization process - it will have a very dramatic impact on the lives of their children," he added.

The researchers also found that exercise, with a very bad diet, will help the fertilization process.

Rats undergoing a high-fat diet experienced negative health problems, such as obesity and insulin resistance, but those effects were not found when mice on a high-fat diet were forced to active or in other words "exercise."

"A high-fat diet, which in the case of our experiments was carried out for three weeks, changed the profile of the mice. But the sport returns their profile, "added Kristin.

More effort must be made to find out whether the same thing can be applied to humans. But in studies of these mice, exercise in male mice was an important key to the health of their offspring. [em]

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