In the last decade we have faced important changes in the framework of ideologies at the international level. On the one hand we have seen a consolidation of the awareness upon the environment. On the other hand, since the fall down of the Berlin wall, the world-wide discredit of socialism has grown up, it has bad press. In words of O’Connor (1998: 49) “during the past two or three decades, eco...

BACKGROUND Epigenetics, which is just beginning to attract public attention and policy discussion, challenges conventional understanding of gene-environment interaction and intergenerational inheritance and perhaps much more besides. QUESTION Does epigenetics challenge modern political ideologies? METHODS I analyzed the narratives of obesity and epigenetics recently published in the more li...