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Can the effects of nutrition be passed down from generation to generation? In a new study, Swedish researchers determined it can.

Three generations of one family--born in Sweden in 1890, 190S and 1920--were included in the study. Historical data was used to determine how much food was available during the 19th and early 20th centuries, times when meager crops made famine common.

When little food was available to men during their "slow-growth" period (SGP), which occurs before puberty, their descendants had a low rate of mortality from cardiovascular disease. And having a paternal grandfather who had ...

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