Strong Links Between Mothers' Diets And Health Of Their Children

Strong Links Between Mothers' Diets And Health Of Their Children:

"The report 'Early Nutrition and Lifelong Health,' published this month by the British Medical Association Board of Science, looks at the evidence that the diets of women of reproductive age, and those of their foetuses and young children, are significant factors in influencing the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, brittle bone disease and even some forms of cancer and mental illness, later in those children's lives.

Lead author Professor Mark Hanson, director of the Centre for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease at the University of Southampton, comments: 'Society and public health organisations need to pay much greater attention to these issues if the rising epidemic of these diseases is to be prevented. "