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A comment on You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016). Parent comment

Re:You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much... by legerdemain on Saturday May 14, 2022 @07:00PM (#31383538) 

  > obesity is a chronic disease starting very early in life, indeed even before conception
I'm very curious about your thoughts on life before conception. Does the unborn infant soul inhere in the egg? And if it does, are you suggesting that some people are conceived with fat souls?
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Re:You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much... by CuriousSkeptic on Saturday May 14, 2022 @07:09PM (#31383601)
The report links to the science

But the basics of it is that paternal health impact sperm selection, and maternal health impacts the hormonal environment shaping genetic expressions of the developing child.

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