Health News from Medical News Today: High-Fat Diet During Pregnancy Programs Child For Future Diabetes

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. High-Fat Diet During Pregnancy Programs Child For Future Diabetes 29 May 2011, 10:00 am A high-fat diet during pregnancy may program a woman's baby for future diabetes, even if she herself is not obese or diabetic, says a new University of Illinois study published in the Journal of Physiology. "We found that exposure to a high-fat diet before birth modifies gene expression in the livers of offspring so they are more likely to overproduce glucose, which can cause early insulin resistance and diabetes," said Yuan-Xiang Pan, a U of I professor of nutrition... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.