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Old 09-01-2018, 10:42 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
The question is what happens in the long term, not to just the poor but to everybody, not just over five years but over several generations.
We know from epigenetics that stress upon parents can result in changes to their kids born much later.

For example, if raised in a multi-year N Korean famine, then epigenetics now explains why your kids, born ten years later, will be fatter. The ongoing question is whether that genetic change will also affect your grandchildren.
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