date:Jan 27, 2014
The children of obese mothers who consume a high fat diet may be at higher risk of obesity and diabetes due to the 'rewiring' of brain regions that control metabolism, according to new research in mice.
The study aimed to shed further light on the molecular processes underlying the previously reported phenomenon that 'heavy mothers have heavy babies' - also referred to as metabolic programming .
We aimed to establish a mouse model of metabolic programming that would allow us to identify the mo