Huffington Magazine Issue 6 | Page 49

HUFFINGTON 07.22.12 CHEMISTRY LESSONS 05 “These injuries to the genetic material are of a kind that may lead to disease in the individual exposed or they may make their effects felt in future generations.” IN OTHER WORDS, if you happen to be obese or infertile, facing cancer or diabetes or any number of other diseases, it might well have something to do with your father’s exposure to a plastic toy in 1955, or even his father’s exposure to his comrades’ chemicallaced second-hand smoke after he successfully stormed the beach at Normandy. Your own children and grandchildren may