You Are What Your Dad Ate [WATCH]

Chances are really good that you've heard the cliché, "You are what you eat" a time or two in your life, right? Well, according to scientists, you also are what your dad ate – before you were conceived.

Researchers say that they've discovered that what your dad ate and how much he weighed before your conception could be affecting your health in the here and now. In other words, the researchers believe that we are a product of the environment our fathers lived in before we were born. Kind of hard to wrap your head around that, right?

The thinking used to be that parents passed down their genes, but now science believes that we pass down what happens to our genes. If you're as confused as I was about this whole way of thinking, watch this- it'll help: