{"id":2681,"date":"2025-05-28T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/boys-who-put-on-weight-as-teenagers-put-their-own-kids-at-risk-of-obesity\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:07:21","slug":"boys-who-put-on-weight-as-teenagers-put-their-own-kids-at-risk-of-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/boys-who-put-on-weight-as-teenagers-put-their-own-kids-at-risk-of-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys who put on weight as teenagers put their own kids at risk of obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-28 14:07:21<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Boys who gain weight during their teenage years are putting their future children at increased risk of obesity.<BR><br \/>\nExperts have discovered that piling on the pounds during puberty is damaging as the period, when sperm is developing, is a &#8220;key window of vulnerability&#8221; for DNA.<BR><br \/>\nBoffins from the University of Southampton in the UK and the University of Bergen in Norway analysed the DNA of 339 pairs of fathers and their kids.<BR><br \/>\nThe analysis revealed DNA changes in 1,962 genes connected to the formation of fat cells and fat metabolism in the offspring of fathers who gained too much weight during their teenage years.<BR><br \/>\nThese alterations were associated with a heightened risk of obesity, as well as asthma and poorer lung function.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Cecilie Svanes, from the University of Bergen, said: &#8220;The new findings have significant implications for public health and may be a game-changer in public health intervention strategies.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They suggest that a failure to address obesity in young teenagers today could damage the health of future generations, further entrenching health inequalities for decades to come.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-28 14:07:21 Boys who gain weight during their teenage years are putting their future children at increased risk of obesity. Experts have discovered that piling on the pounds during puberty&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}