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