Genes: How Your Lifestyle Choices Could Affect Your Children…

For the first time, we have a mechanism that could explain how your lifestyle choices may impact the genes of your children and grandchildren. Mounting evidence suggests that environmental factors such as smoking, diet and stress can leave their mark on the genes of future generations. For example, girls born to Dutch women who were… Read More

Premature Death: Lifestyle, Choice & Behaviour

Lifestyle choices and modifiable behaviours are responsible for a substantial number of premature deaths worldwide and years lived with  disability or disease, as measured by disability adjusted life years (DALYs). The 2010 Global Burden of Disease study reported that the top three risks to health and wellbeing were: High blood pressure (7% DALYs); Smoking (6.3% DALYs);… Read More