Cockpit Colin wrote:

Personally, I have to wonder if the reason grandma + mum + the kids have
similar medical problems (including hypertension / obesity / type 2
diabeties etc) is that they've all eaten similar diets - passed down from
one generation to the next.

I would bet on this. It also ought to be easy to test. Just locate enough men
who've been married for, say, 20 years to a woman who cooks differently from the
food on which they were raised. See if they show significant differences in
health from that of their parents.

George Patterson
Drink up, Socrates -- it's all-natural.