Pregnancy Diet Plays Role in Childs Future Weight by Anjanee Sharma on March 16, 2021 at 10:36 PM
Research finds that a mother s diet during pregnancy plays an important role in determining their child s BMI trajectory later in life. Since the pathways programming the metabolism, growth, and eating behaviors of a child are sensitive to in-utero influences, childhood weight issues may originate during pregnancy.
Dr. Carmen Monthé-Drèze, lead author, says, To date, studies linking maternal nutrition during pregnancy to offspring growth have focused on the newborn and early-childhood period, with limited data extending later into childhood.
The researchers wanted to understand dynamic growth changes that occur from childhood through adolescence due to maternal nutrition during pregnancy. Particularly, they wanted to see if there are distinct periods between birth and adolescence when weight gain rates are more susceptible to the programming effects o
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No Healthy Pregnancy Food Diet Risks: Pregnant women need to have overall healthy diet, high in fruit and vegetables and low in refined carbohydrates and red and processed meats. A new study has found links between mother s low quality food diet and higher risk of obesity and excess body fat in children, especially during late-childhood.
The research showed that children of mothers who ate a higher quality diet/intake, low in inflammation-associated foods, during pregnancy had a lower risk of obesity and lower body fat levels in late-childhood than children whose mothers ate a lower quality diet, high in inflammation-associated foods, while pregnant.
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