High-Fat Diet In Nursing Mothers
Wed,26 October 2011
The future health of offspring is more negatively impacted when their mothers consume a high fat diet while nursing compared with high-fat diet consumption during pregnancy, according to animal research at Johns Hopkins University. These new research results were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB).
The researchers used a method called "cross-fostering" to determine whether prenatal or postnatal exposure to maternal high fat diet has a greater influence on the development of obesity and diabetes in