Fathers' eating habits in adolescence may influence the diets of their future children

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Children’s eating habits may be influenced by the quality of their father’s diet when he was an adolescent.

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ORLANDO — Men’s eating habits in adolescence may offer a clue to their children’s future nutritional health, according to a presentation at the annual NUTRITION meeting.

Mariane H. De Oliveira, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Boston College, told Healio that she and her colleagues “wanted to understand whether fathers’ dietary habits before they even become parents — particularly during adolescence — could influence how they approach feeding their own children later in life.”

“This is an important subject because most preconception health research and public he