High-fat diet, obesity during pregnancy harms stem cells in developing fetus
Physician-scientists at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital reveal a high-fat diet and obesity during pregnancy compromise the blood-forming, or hematopoietic, stem cell system in the fetal liver…
December 31, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood, compromise-the-blood, fetal, hospital, ohsu, pregnancy / obstetrics, scientists-at-ohsu, stem-cell
‘Junk food’ moms have ‘junk food’ babies
Pregnant mothers who eat high sugar and high fat diets have babies who are likely to become junk food junkies themselves. According to the report, which used rats, this happens because the high fat and high sugar diet leads to changes in the fetal brain’s reward pathway, altering food preferences.
March 23, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: altering-food, become-junk, eat-high, fetal, food-junkies, high-fat, on call diets, report, reward-pathway, sugar-diet, the-fetal, the-report
