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If you thought that only overweight mothers makes fat babies, listen to this.

Even fat father-to-be run the risk of making overweight daughters who run a higher risk of diabetes and premature ageing.

Just like a mother's, even a dad's diet, weight and health at the time of conception can influence the baby's genes and health, more so a girl child.

How a mother's health impacts her children has been well documented, but the effect of the health of fathers is relatively a new find in this course.

Dr Margaret Morris, a researcher for the Pharmacology School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney said: ‘While scientists have focused on how the maternal diet affects children's health, this study is part of exciting new research exploring the impact of paternal diet on offspring risk of obesity'.

‘The fact that similar gene markers were affected in pancreas and fat tissue tells us that some of the same pathways are being influenced, possibly from the earliest stages of life.

‘It will be important to follow up these findings, and to learn more about when and how to intervene to reduce the impact of poor paternal metabolic health on offspring.’

‘This report is the first step in understanding exactly how the nutrition and health of fathers affects his children, for better or worse.’

The research was published in the FASEB Journal.

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AW: Suchorita Choudhury