You are what your grandparents ate

Is it possible to pass on health by inheritance?
This question is relevant for many people, but there is no unequivocal answer to it, too many factors affect the state of our body, including the lifestyle of previous generations.
The book "You are what your grandparents ate the generally accepted ideas about the causes of chronic diseases upside down. Based on the works of the famous epidemiologist David Barker, she shows that heredity is not only genes received from parents. Thanks to the relatively new science, epigenetics became aware that our health and well -being can affect the lifestyle of previous generations. The risks of the development of many chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes of the second type, hypertension, heart attack and dementia) depend on the first thousand days of the child’s existence from the moment of conception. The biological causes of predisposition to many diseases are associated with the lifestyle of parents, grandfathers and grandmothers