Высокий сахар крови в супоросых матях увеличивает риск тучности детства.
Treating diabetes during pregnancy can break the link between gestational diabetes and childhood obesity, according to a Kaiser Permanente study featured in the September 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.
The largest study of its kind, this research shows that the risk of childhood obesity rises in […]

Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Babies exposed to chemicals used in non-stick cookware and other consumer products while in their mother’s womb were born at a significantly lower body weight, according a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and […]

University of Adelaide - An Australian researcher has discovered scientific evidence that obesity associated with a high-fat diet is a key factor in infertility – because of how it affects the receptor PPARγ in women’s eggs. PPAR-gamma has an insulin-sensitizing effect in the body; it is one of the PPAR set of receptors associated with […]

Wellcome Trust - Mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding may be putting their children at risk of overeating and developing obesity, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and carried out at the Royal Veterinary College, London. The research suggests that pregnant and breastfeeding women should not indulge in fatty, […]

Prenatal exposure to high level of stress hormone cortisol may affect brain development and sleep patterns.
University of Rochester Medical Center - Anxious or depressed mothers-to-be are at increased risk of having children who will experience sleep problems in infancy and toddlerhood, finds a study that published this month in Early Human Development.
While this finding presents […]

High mercury blood levels in 25 percent of NYC adults and nearly half of Asian New Yorkers, likely from eating too much fish high in mercury.
NYC.gov - A quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels, according to survey results released June 23, 2007 by the Health Department, and the elevations are closely […]