Epigenetics can influence the next generation:
Genetic expression does not just stop at your life. Choices that you make can affect your children and then their children and beyond. This is known as genetic momentum. “Children born to overweight mothers are epigenetically programmed to build adipose tissue in unhealthy amounts. Optimizing in-utero nutrition can have the opposite effect, by convincing the epigenome to abandon the weight-gain strategy and opt for one geared toward optimal body composition (Deep Nutrition, 29)”. “These sugars are not short term toxins that operate over years or decades, and perhaps even operate from generation to generation. In other words, mothers will pass the problem down to their children, not through how or what they feed them, but through what they eat themselves and how that changes the environment in the womb in which the children develop (The Case Against Sugar, 17)”.