Eating a high-fat diet in pregnancy may cause changes in the foetal brain that lead to over-eating and obesity early in life, research suggests.
Tests on rats showed those born to mothers fed a high-fat diet had many more brain cells specialised to produce appetite-stimulating proteins.
The Rockefeller University team say the finding may help explain why obesity rates have soared in recent years.
The study appears in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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This is so horrible, I should stop eating choclates then ???
ReplyDeleteObese mothers increase the rate of health risks for their babies also.
ReplyDeleteThank John