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Experts Believe Many Birth Defects Preventable

From HealthDay news. Duh! A decent diet does wonders for the genome and epigenome.

"...there's a lot that a woman can do before and during pregnancy to reduce the child's risk for developing a birth defect, doctors say. Most of these precautions are common-sense measures that apply to anyone who wants to lead a healthy life.

"Women of reproductive age should be cognizant of the fact they need to be healthy," said Dr. Michael Katz, senior vice president for research and global programs at the March of Dimes, a pediatrics professor emeritus at Columbia University and a consultant to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. "They should be living a healthy lifestyle anyway. It's not an extra chore. It's a good lifestyle."

It all starts with the grandparents, or in a species-wide view, the first bi-ped. The further away we strayed from the hunter-gatherer diet, the more diseases and defects we accumulated in our epigenome and genome. Here's how to correct the human's genome and epigenome--your family's future health could be riding on it.

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