Wednesday, November 24, 2010

New Sleep Cycle Discovery Explains Why Fatty Diets During Pregnancy Make Kids Obese


ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2010) — The link between sleeping and obesity is drawn tighter as a new research published online in the FASEB Journalstudy shows that what your mother ate when she was pregnant may make you obese or overweight by altering the function of genes (epigenetic changes) that regulate circadian rhythm. In the report, pregnant primate females consuming a high-fat diet altered the function of fetal genes that regulate circadian rhythm (including appetite and food intake) during development. The offspring also had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

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