Researchers from the University of Cambridge have been researching and found that children who are born to mothers who consumed an unhealthy diet while pregnant, have a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes. Dr. Susane Ozanne said "What is most exciting about these findings is that we are now starting to really understand how nutrition during the first nine months of life spent in the womb shape our long term health by influencing how the cells in our body age." People know that environmental factors affect the baby, but nobody realized that having an unhealthy diet could cause that much. The gene, Hnf4a has been linked to type 2 diabetes, and is regulated by maternal diet through epigenetic modifications through our DNA, and having a poor diet raises the rate of it. This is really interesting because people know that you need to eat healty, when your pregnant, but I never knew what could really happen if you had an unhealthy diet. More people should be informed about this, so they can take all precautions while they are pregnant so they can have a healthy baby.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307151911.htm
To me this was sort of a no-brainer. Your not supposed to drink or smoke during pregnancy because it can harm your baby. So of course you need to eat right so your baby will be healthy. You can't just eat all the junk you wandt and expect your baby to come out perfectly fine. All expecting mothers should know about this and taught proper diet techniques so they're baby will not suffer from diseases later in life.
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