Hurling is the greatest game in the world

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Fagan_ODowd

The book the Gene by Siddharta Mukherjee refers to research in an area of Holland where there was a famine during WW2 and found that the famine had triggered genetic changes in the offspring of the survivors. I’ve always assumed that the rates of obesity particularly among lower income groups ( who I am assuming for the most part can trace their roots to famine survivors ) are linked to the famine.

shitty processed food is the cheapest and most unhealthy

[TreatyStones]

Surely any Irish family that lived in the western half of the country would be classed as “famine survivors”

[anon7035031]

The study is sound fagan. One minor correction, it’s an example of epigenetic inheritance, not genetic inheritance. Up to to very recently it was thought that epigenetic inheritance does not happen, now there is growing evidence that it does happen. As it turns out Lamark was somewhet right and Darwin was somewhat wrong.

[TreatyStones]

Labane, the classically trained French chef, stock market analyst and genetic scientist

[Fagan_ODowd]

@TreatyStones

Labane, the classic trained French chef, stock market analyst and genetic scientist

I think he is what’s known as a polymath.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@anon7035031

The study is sound fagan. One minor correction, it’s an example of epigenetic inheritance, not genetic inheritance. Up to to very recently it was thought that epigenetic inheritance does not happen, now there is growing evidence that it does happen. As it turns out Lamark was somewhet right and Darwin was somewhat wrong.

Look it Kev says it’s nonsense so that’s the end of it.

[TreatyStones]

@Fagan_ODowd

think he is what’s known as a polymath.

That’s one word for him alright

[Steven_Naimsith]

@Fagan_ODowd

@TreatyStones

Labane, the classic trained French chef, stock market analyst and genetic scientist

I think he is what’s known as a polymath.

Is that the nice polite society way of saying “Know-it-all-cunt”?

[anon7035031]

Ironically enough the study you referenced, that Kev scorned, explains a lot of the “nonsense” he peddles himself.

[gilgamboa]

Don’t forget Internet search specialist

[Julio_Geordio]

@TreatyStones

Labane, the classically trained French chef, stock market analyst and genetic scientist

US political afficando also.

I think he drinks beer through his arse as well. Although considering he talks out of it so much that’s hardly surprising.

[anon7035031]

Talking through your arse is a badge of honor on TFK pal.

[caoimhaoin]

Be specific there.

He referenced a book, that has nothing to do with obesity in the western world.

[anon7035031]

The book referenced a study done on the Dutch Winter Famine of 1944-45. It’s one of the strongest pieces of evidence we have for epigenetic effects being inheritable.

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/44/17046.long

[Julio_Geordio]

@anon7035031

Talking through your arse is a badge of honor on TFK pal.

You wouldn’t last long here if you couldn’t. Is there any other forum in the world where you’d find the requisite knowledge to have a debate on genetics, Irish rural and urban housing in the early twentieth century, hurling, possible alcholism of a KK sliothar manufacturer and the global obesity epidemic.
And that’s just one thread. Over about 20 posts.

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

We kept the houses with stone wall front and mud wall back

[anon7035031]

To put the above into layman’s language for the non polymaths, DNA is a blueprint for how an organism is built. Up to very recently it was believed genes were responsible for all inherited traits, whether someone turned out fat or thin, slow or fast, smart or thick, an alcoholic or a teetotaller, etc. We now know that isn’t true. There’s a layer of protein called the epigenome that coats DNA, and that’s what determines how genes are expressed. While DNA is pretty fixed from generation to generation, the epigenome changes throughout life based on environment, diet, etc. In that respect you are not your genes. What’s very new in science is evidence that some of the epigenome is inherited, which explains for example why children of fat people are more likely to be fat, children of alcoholics more likely to be alcoholics, etc.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@anon7035031

To put the above into layman’s language for the non polymaths, DNA is a blueprint for how an organism is built. Up to very recently it was believed genes were responsible for all inherited traits, whether someone turned out fat or thin, slow or fast, smart or thick, an alcoholic or a teetotaller, etc. We now know that isn’t true. There’s a layer of protein called the epigenome that coats DNA, and that’s what determines how genes are expressed. While DNA is pretty fixed from generation to generation, the epigenome changes throughout life based on environment, diet, etc. In that respect you are not your genes. What’s very new in science is evidence that some of the epigenome is inherited, which explains for example why children of fat people are more likely to be fat, children of alcoholics more likely to be alcoholics, etc.

yawn

to put it in laymans language

you are a detestable boring cunt

[anon7035031]

…and you are a perfect exampe of what I’m describing, obviously coming from a long line of idiots.

[Julio_Geordio]

@anon7035031

To put the above into layman’s language for the non polymaths, DNA is a blueprint for how an organism is built. Up to very recently it was believed genes were responsible for all inherited traits, whether someone turned out fat or thin, slow or fast, smart or thick, an alcoholic or a teetotaller, etc. We now know that isn’t true. There’s a layer of protein called the epigenome that coats DNA, and that’s what determines how genes are expressed. While DNA is pretty fixed from generation to generation, the epigenome changes throughout life based on environment, diet, etc. In that respect you are not your genes. What’s very new in science is evidence that some of the epigenome is inherited, which explains for example why children of fat people are more likely to be fat, children of alcoholics more likely to be alcoholics, etc.

I’ve a lovely pair of skinny jeans