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Mom's pregnancy diet affects child's weight: study
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Despite an aversion to a lot of good-for-me vegetables, (kale, turnips, beets, brussel sprouts et. al) I'm normally a pretty healthy eater. I watch my fats, eat lots of fruits and salad, and eat fried food very rarely.All that went out the window when I was pregnant. Suddenly I started wanting bucketfuls of ice cream and peanut butter, banana and brown sugar sandwiches by the truckload. I let my body do what it wanted to do, within reason. Also perhaps a little outside of reason. And now I am feeling guilty for it, because there's a new study that says that what a Mom-to-be eats during pregnancy can affect her child's tendencies to obesity in later life.
This article points out that the study has only actually been done on pregnant rats: some were given lard, others were not. The rats who were fed high-fat diets had babies with higher fat stores one year later.
Researchers believe that a fat-rich diet during pregnancy is more likely to produce offspring who have increased fat stores because of enlarged fat cells - in both rats and humans.
I'm not convinced. I still believe genetics will play a bigger role in my son's body shape. At least I hope so, because I don't want him to be adversely affected by all that cheesecake ice cream I enjoyed while pregnant.
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7-08-2006 @ 10:39AM
Belinda said...So far that isn't true here. I ate mainly McDonalds (all I could keep down) and my daughter is as tiny as can be. 19 lbs at 17 (almost 18) months old!
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7-08-2006 @ 10:54AM
thordora said...I ate like utter crap with my seconc pregnancy-she's a big girl (98% percentile I believe) but she will eat absolutely ANYTHING. She's gonna be 17 months soon, and she's yet to turn anything down that I can remember. So maybe that's a good side effect? :P
I do find that my first born really likes the things I ate a lot of when pregnant, like strawberries. I was a FIEND for those in the last month of pregnancy, and ate BOWLS upon BOWLS of them.
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7-08-2006 @ 1:48PM
Amber said...This only proves we shouldn't test on animals. Their genetic makeup cannot compare to ours and how a human body reacts. And seriously what kind of results did they think would happen if given a rat lard? Animals cannot eat the same thing we do, i.e. fried food. Any person with a dog [or any other species of pet] will know how sensitive their systems are.
There are tons of human subjects eating nothing but junk and researchers can view the results from that.
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7-08-2006 @ 9:34PM
Matthew Miller said...Also, how does "rats, one year later" compare to humans?
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