Mommy eating snacks harms long-term health for children

Snacks can affect health. Some animal studies show that poor diets during pregnancy or lactation can cause long-term health damage to the baby.

Young offspring of mice fed high-fat, high-fat foods have a high fat content in the blood and around major organs even when they are mature. These animals have a higher risk of diabetes even though they eat healthy.

The work of the same team also showed that when maternal mice were given snacks during pregnancy and breastfeeding, mice also craved similar snacks. However, they believe that even if they abandon this diet, their health has been compromised.

Dr. Stephanie Bayol - one of the researchers - said: 'It seems that mother's diet during pregnancy and breastfeeding is very important for the long-term health of the child. We always say, 'How to eat, that's how it is' but it's also true to say 'How do you eat, how are you?'

A special concern is that fat is concentrated around the main organs, a sign of type II diabetes development. Maternal mice are not healthy, their mice are more susceptible to disease.

Maternal snacks during pregnancy can have long-term health effects for children.

However, there are interesting differences between the sexes. Males with unhealthy mothers often have high levels of insulin and normal blood sugar, while the opposite occurs in females and the females are fatter.

According to Professor Neil Stickland, there is no reason why these rules cannot be applied to people. 'People share a number of basic biological systems with mice, so there is good reason to assume that the effects we see in mice can be repeated in humans.'

He said that human studies have found links between parental weight and female weight.

Early life effects

Dr Pat Goodwin, of the Wellcome Trust, said the work supports more and more evidence that many different risk factors make a person obese.

She said: 'Pregnancy can be a difficult time for many mothers, but it is important that they are aware of what they eat that can affect the child.'

However, according to Dr. Simon Langley-Evans - nutrition researcher at the University of Nottingham - this work does not prove that maternal diets can affect child health in addition to affecting appetite and appetite. .

He said 'I am not convinced by what they come up with - all you can see is the result of obesity due to appetite. What it really brings is that the early influence of the mother can be extremely important. '

Dr. Iain Frame, charitable organization Diabetes UK, disagrees with certain conclusions from animal research. However, he said: 'This work further confirms an earlier argument that children whose mothers are eating poorly during pregnancy are more likely to have diabetes and heart disease in later life. . '