Fit Fathers Are Making Their Kids Fat Before They’re Even Born
What if I told you (men), that because you exercise regularly and are fit fathers, your offspring have an increased risk of becoming obese along with other health issues? It might leave you scratching your head, right? After all, eating a well-balanced diet and staying active is supposed to be good for you. Well, according to new research that isn’t exactly the case.
Drawbacks to daily long-term exercise for fit fathers?
Researchers at East Carolina University are now stating that men (fit fathers) who exercise regularly could increase the risk of their unborn (unconceived) child having metabolic disorders such as obesity and insulin resistance. I’m not going to lie, when I first read the study it was late at night and I went back to read it a second time thinking my brain missed some key words that I surely didn’t just read something that showed a negative side effect of exercise—especially on kids that were unconceived. After reading it a second time and making myself some coffee I realized that there was no mistake in what I read.
Now mind you, this new research was done with rodents, so human studies must be completed to validate the findings. So, before you give up on exercise and eating clean, let’s just pump the brakes a little. But the findings of the study are pretty extraordinary.
What did the data show?
Researchers had rodents exercise for 12 weeks prior to having a one night stand with a spicy señorita (female rodent). Ok, we’re having some fun here. Follow along. What the researchers found interesting was that the exercise program the male rodent was engaged in for those 12 weeks had programmed his offspring to burn calories at a more efficient rate. Now that’s the complete opposite of what you might have read above. Here’s where it gets interesting. When they fed the offspring a diet high in fats, according to the researchers it had “increased body weight and adiposity, impaired glucose tolerance and elevated insulin levels.”
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