Maternal Stress During Pregnancy May Affect Child's Obesity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110412131919.htm

ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2011) — There is increasing evidence from human and animal studies that offspring of parents who were physically or psychologically stressed are at higher risk of developing obesity, and that these offspring may in turn "transmit" that increased risk to the next generation. Now research conducted at the University of Minnesota and Georgetown University suggests that a mother's nutritional or psychological stress during pregnancy and lactation may create a signature on her child's genes that put the child at increased risk for obesity later in life, especially if the child is female.

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