A US and Israeli led study has proved that obese parents can give their offspring health problems all the way into their adulthood.
Researchers at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public
Health and Community Medicine and the Departments of Medicine and
Epidemiology at the University of Washington, Seattle have made a positive identification between mothers who gain too much weight during pregnancy and their offspring developing obesity and other serious health problems into adulthood.
Although it was well known that parents who have obesity problems pass it on to their children (as has been highlighted in this blog elsewhere), it has now come to light that it also effects them into adulthood. This could also scrap the theory of 'puppy fat' held so closely by some. (The theory being that the children will somehow 'grow out' of their obesity.)
The study was taken from 1400 people born between 1974 - 76. "We know now that events occurring early in life to foetuses have
long-lasting consequences for the health of the adult person," said Dr.
Hagit Hochner, the leading researcher on the project. The study found the children of mothers who gained more than 14 kilograms (31 pounds)
during pregnancy were measured to have a higher BMI than those who were
born to mothers who did not gain more than nine kilos (20 pounds) during
pregnancy.
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