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   The Weight You Inherited That Has Nothing to Do With Your Genes Consider for a moment the possibility that the difficulty you experience managing your weight is not simply a matter of your personal dietary choices, your exercise habits, or even the genetic blueprint you received at conception. Consider that some portion of your metabolic tendencies, including your appetite patterns, your fat storage propensity, your insulin sensitivity, and your resting metabolic rate, were shaped by experiences that occurred not in your lifetime but in your parents' lives, your grandparents' lives, and possibly even your great-grandparents' lives, decades or generations before you were born. This is not a mystical claim. It is the increasingly well-supported scientific proposition of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, which is the transmission from parent to child of biological information beyond the DNA sequence itself, information about the nutritional, environmental, and p...