Eating Junk While Pregnant Can Harm Your Baby

We all know that smoking and drinking when pregnant can harm the baby, but new research published in The Journal of Physiology suggests that poor diet may also cause long-lasting, irreversible damage in offspring from heart disease to diabetes. Stéphanie Bayol and Neil Stickland at the Royal Veterinary College, London fed female rats a “junk food” diet of crisps, cheese, muffins and other processed foods throughout pregnancy and lactation.

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Filed under: Pregnancy on July 4th, 2008