According to the study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, children’s obesity is correlated with the amounts of highly processed foods consumed by their moms, including pastries, fast food, soft drinks, and others.
The study found that excessive maternal consumption of highly processed foods during pregnancy raised the likelihood that children would be at risk for obesity by 26 percent, whereas consumption of these foods prior to conception had no impact on child obesity.
According to dietitian Razan Shweihat, research has shown that a mother’s diet has an impact on her child’s health during the first “1000 days,” or from the start of pregnancy until the child is two years old.
This period is crucial, she continued. The mother must take into account that what she is dealing with is also eaten by her child . . . and therefore care must be taken to the quality of her food, not its quantity.
“39 million children are fat, according to World Health Organization data for 2020, which may be the major result of the mothers’ diets.
According to Victorial, what women eat may have an impact on their offspring before they are even born.
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