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152: The Genetic Discovery of The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945

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Never before in history has there ever been such a well-documented, yet devastating, famine that affected so many people. In the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945, food got shut off for 4.5 million people of all classes for seven months. The caloric intake dropped to 450 calories per person. Then, almost instantaneously after the war ended, everyone had all the food they needed. The effects of that on that entire population got tracked for a generation. The children born to pregnant mothers were affected, and so were their children and their grandchildren. That horrible and protracted act of inhumanity became the birthplace of epigenetics. LegacyThe legacy of the famine of the Dutch Hunger Winter was a well-documented experience that has helped scientists to measure the effects of famine on human health. It became known as the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study.The findings of the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort StudyThis study found that most children of pregnant women exposed to famine were susceptible to diabetes, o