Table 1.

Percentage of 730 participants who checked ‘Agree’, ‘disagree’ or ‘don’t Know (dK)’ to each question.

	Question	Agree (%)	disagree (%)	dK (%)
1	Damage from the environment to my mother was not transmitted to my child	19.5	54.9 (c)	25.6
2	My diet affects my child only while I am pregnant with her	24.7	61.5 (c)	13.8
3	My daughter is not affected by her father’s eating habits	60.1	12.6 (c)	27.3
4	My daughter’s DNA is not affected by her father’s drinking habits	18.5	63.6 (c)	18.0
5	If I drink during pregnancy, I can only harm my child but not my Grandchild	14.8	67.1 (c)	18.1
6	My smoking affects the birth weight of my son but not his DNA	15.5	61.8 (c)	22.7
7	My diet does affect my daughter and my granddaughter	61.4 (c)	19.3	19.3
8	A low-fat diet during pregnancy helps lower my son’s breast cancer Risk	26.7 (c)	12.7	60.6
9	If I don’t get breast cancer, my daughter won’t get it either	1.6	91.9 (c)	6.4
10	Identical twins have the same risk for disease	27.7	39.0 (c)	33.3

The correct response is indicated by (c) and shading.