Report Say Fathers Who Exercise Likely To Have Healthy Children — Leadership Newspaper

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A study published on Monday in the journal Diabetes has shown that men who want to have children should do more exercises.

Hence there is increasing evidence that fathers play an important role in obesity and metabolic programming of their offspring.

American researchers from Ohio State University College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School investigated how a father’s exercise regimen would affect his offspring’s metabolic health.

Using a mouse model, they fed male mice either a normal diet or a high-fat diet for three weeks.

Some mice from each diet group were sedentary and some exercised freely.

After three weeks, the mice bred and their offspring ate a normal diet under sedentary conditions for a year.

The researchers found that adult offspring from sires who exercised had improved glucose metabolism, decreased body weight and a decreased fat mass.

“Offspring from the dads fed a high-fat diet fared worse, so they were more glucose intolerant. But exercise negated that…



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