What a pregnant woman eats can affect her child’s Obesity risk
According to a new study of researchers, pregnant women’s diet can affect her child's risk of obesity, regardless of is she fat or thin, and what her baby weighs at birth.
The British Heart Foundation stated that the study provides strong needed help for women of child-bearing age follow a healthy lifestyle and diet during pregnancy.
According to the Southampton University in the UK, and including members from New Zealand and Singapore, the international team of researchers this process called epigenetic change alters the function of an unborn baby's DNA in response to changes in the mother's diet.
These changes detected by sampling the umbilical cord at birth for "epigenetic markers" of obesity risk.
Using these epigenetic markers, the researchers were surprised to find they could predict 25% of the variation of fatness in the 300 children when they get the age of 6 or 9 years. The children were born to mothers who had participated in two longitudinal studies based in Southampton.
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