High-fat diet in pregnancy can affect three future generations
New mouse study shows that pups, grand pups, and great-grand pups of mothers fed a high-fat, high-sugar diet during pregnancy developed metabolic problems.
June 16, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: developed-metabolic, diet, during-pregnancy, grand-pups, high-sugar-diet, mothers-fed, mouse-study, on call diets, pregnancy / obstetrics
Study Shows That The Fetal Brain Is Vulnerable To Moderate Decreases In Maternal Nutrition
Eating less during early pregnancy impaired fetal brain development in a nonhuman primate model, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio report. The researchers found decreased formation of cell-to-cell connections, cell division and amounts of growth factors in the fetuses of mothers fed a reduced diet during the first half of pregnancy…
January 18, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cell-division, diet, early-pregnancy, fetuses, first-half, mothers-fed, oncalldietitian.com, pregnancy / obstetrics, reduced-diet, science, science-center, texas, texas-health, the-fetuses
