The sins of the fathers: why we should care about paternal diet around conception

It has been 30 years since David Barker and colleagues published their first work on the association between in utero environment and cardiovascular disease in later life (Barker et al. 1989). Since that time, there has been a huge amount of research carried out on the impact of sub-optimal developmental environments and future disease risk. Using population cohorts and various animal models the impact of maternal undernutrition, overnutrition,...