date:Jan 27, 2014
st sensitive period of hypothalamic neurocircuit development in response to maternal HFD [high-fat diet] feeding, explained the research team, led by Professor Jens Brüning of the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research and Professor Tamas Horvath of the Yale University School of Medicine in the US.
The study, published in Cell, suggests that mothers who consume a large amount of fat during the third trimester may be putting their children at risk for lifelong obesity and related metab