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The mother’s diet during pregnancy can affect the health of the baby, even years later. To understand this “nutritional programming“, and can potentially enable the early prevention of certain metabolic diseases, several teams of researchers working on what they call the “fetal origins of adult disease.
Nutrition during pregnancy influences the health enfantUn link between maternal nutrition during pregnancy and child health
A study of survivors of the famine that struck the Netherlands in 1944-1945 was particularly shown that when pregnant women had suffered famine, their children were more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

The subjects of the cohort affected by famine Holland are still followed today and interesting results still be obtained. Researchers have recently shown by example that subjects exposed to malnutrition before birth, ie during the first 16 weeks of gestation, prefer to eat fatty foods, which could increase their risk of high cholesterol if these foods are high in saturated fats and trans fats. These people also tend to be less physically active. Read the rest of this entry »