Date published: 2008/07/01
The BBC says:
Eating a poor diet when pregnant or breastfeeding may cause long-lasting health damage to the child, animal studies suggest.
The offspring of rats fed fatty, processed food had high levels of fat in their bloodstream and around major organs even after adolescence.
The animals had a raised diabetes risk - even if they ate healthily.
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Studies by the same team have already shown that rats whose mothers were fed junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding were more likely to crave similar snacks themselves.However, the new twist is that even when weaned off this diet themselves, the damage may already have been done, they suggest.
Dr Stephanie Bayol, one of the researchers, said: "It seems that a mother's diet whilst pregnant and breastfeeding is very important for the long-term health of her child.
"We always say: 'You are what you eat', but in fact it may also be true that you are what your mother ate."
Who would have thought it, eh? Needless to say, this is all part of the demonisation both of junk food and of mothers who dare not to follow the suggestions of the academic middle class control freaks who run the country. Presumably sooner or later we will start hearing that mothers who eat junk food are guilty of child abuse. And heck, why stop at mothers. There must also be a (smaller) impact from grandmothers, etc.
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