You are what you eat, goes the saying. But perhaps more apt would be: you are what your mother ate. For there is growing evidence that bad dietary habits of mothers-to-be – while pregnant or even before they conceive – can condemn their children to a lifetime of health problems.
A new study has suggested that women who drink at least one artificially sweetened drink a day double their offspring’s risk of being overweight in early childhood. The babies were not heavier when born, suggesting that the effect is on postnatal growth, not in the womb.
The Minnesota University study of more than 3,000 mothers and their children, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, says further research is needed to explain why artificial sweeteners may have this effect.
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