to the board, especially would be mothers:
Look up epigenetics. Everything the mother does while pregnant is VERY important in development...her attitude, emotions, what she eats. Development hinges on the mother (I know it's obvious on most levels, but it's interesting stuff anyway as to how profound it is).
Example:
<<The reason epigenetics is so important isn't because someday you'll be able to tag your baby's genes for blond hair, a composer's brain, or the ability to hurl a 98 mph fastball. It's because epigenetics teaches us this: The environment that you provide for your offspring -- through what you're eating, drinking, smoking, or stressing about -- is what your child will program herself to expect of the world she's entering. Based on what you're doing right now, she's forecasting her future environment. And if the programming for gene expression doesn't match that environment, problems can occur. So your challenge -- dare we say your responsibility -- is to provide little Dolly with a healthy environment now so that her "internal programming mechanism" predicts and can respond to a healthy environment later. Many of the tips we outline throughout the book arebased on this fundamental idea, but here we'll discuss some of the major things you can do right away to : {snip}:
positively influence the way your baby's genes are expressed.>>
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