Can a mother’s eating habits while pregnant affect her child? A new study suggests, it might.
It’s well known that rats that are underfed during pregnancy produce fat babies with metabolic problems.
To do the same studies with humans is difficult. Yet a “natural” experiment was provided during World War II when the German invasion of Holland resulted in a major famine over several months.
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