Junk Food Encoded in Childrens DNA and BeyondNew study ponders impact of Western food and GMOs on posteritys genes Through the emerging information from epigenetics the study of environmental exposure on genes it becomes apparent that we are not the body equivalent to Las Vegas. What happens to us doesnt stay with us it moves on. Its not so much that disease moves on, but a poorly trained immune system does, according to a unique new study in Nutrition Journal. It starts with inflammation from the Western diet and an infinite domino effect begins. An excerpt from the abstract of Fast Food Fever: reviewing the impacts of the Western diet on immunity: It goes on to say that microbiome can be seeded into the unborn child while in the womb, but if diet toppled moms bacteria balance, the childs inherited immune system doesnt have an education. The study doesnt contest that Americans are fed, but the inability to absorb nutrients which literally leaves them defenseless in the face of disease, or rather creates the environment for it with a poorly trained and equipped immune system. Lacking a good bacterial microbiome is intensifying the vulnerability and that seems to be what we pass on to offspring. The authors conclude: Therefore, given the scope of influence, the vast economic impacts, and the potential for trans-generational inheritance, the dietary impacts on immune health should thus, at minimum, be afforded a level of attention equal to that given to the dietary impacts on cardiovascular health. In the end, it takes a terribly hopeless tone, concluding that even probiotics cant undo the damage or help posterity meaning, more needs to be done. But what? Intervention? The target seems to be the damage of our dietary choices. Yet, most people are limited in their choices, especially at the grocery store where most of the choices have unlabeled GMOs and chemicals. Recovery for Western health and future generations of course, remains to be seen. A great many atrocities appear aimed at deactivating the entire terrain of the human immune system. What do you suppose the ultimate purpose was for this study? Please feel free to read the study and let me know what you think. You can see some interesting charts here. Another recent, similar study on changes in the DNA before conception can be found here. Recently, I wrote about the impact of hunger, genocide and war on the skulls of Cherokee native Americans. Skulls were shrinking in size and that trait was being passed on genetically, but only during tumultuous times. While the discovery seems quite new, I point out that doctors were warning about the necessity of nutrition on genetic impact decades before, yet they were ridiculed at the time. We come full circle again. But its not just junk food the modern bogeyman in politics; its everything in the environment, especially chemicals, which we eat and are exposed to with everything we touch and the air we breathe. The devastating and gene-altering capability of environmental chemicals, even before conception (through the DNA of each parent), has been documented for decades. Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work atNaturalBlaze.com and selfnewsPost.com. Like at Facebook. Recent posts byHeather Callaghan: 