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What your mum ate (or didn’t eat) while pregnant could still be making you fat

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Can a mother’s eating habits while pregnant affect her child? A new study suggests, it might.

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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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Your say: Do you think your mother’s eating habits have affected your own? Share your comments below.

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