食物与健康之间的关系与表现遗传学有关，那是一门研究生活方式和环境如何影响人们基因的学科。
The link between food and health has to do with epigenetics, the study of how lifestyle and environment influence the expression of your genes.
较新的表现遗传学（epigentics）所探索的是环境如何影响到风险基因的表达，几乎可以肯定，寻找答案将是十分重要的。
The relatively new field of epigenetics, which explores how the environment influences the expression of risk genes, will almost certainly be important for finding answers.
至关重要的是，这些适应力强的老鼠也给它们自己的下一代同样的关怀，而实际上这正是因为诱导发生了相似的表现遗传学变化，使得这种行为代代相传。
Crucially, these well-adjusted rats then gave their own babies the same type of care-in effect, transmitting the behaviour from mother to daughter by inducing similar epigenetic changes.
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