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Here is an interesting piece from the Penn State News.
Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may, according to studies from Penn University, prime offspring for weight gain and obesity, later in life.
In a new study, researchers fed a group of rats a high fat diet during pregnancy and lactation. The offspring of these rats were in turn fed a high fat diet when weaned. On reaching adolescence the rats were measured for neural activity involved in energy balance and appetite regulation. Looking at the circuits which relay information from the stomach and the small intestine to the brain and back to the stomach, [ reflexes which help limit the amount of food we eat] they noted parts of the reflexes were compromised.
Kirsteen Browning, lead investigator, states exactly how maternal diet influences these functions is still unknown, however, "it`s time we start to take seriously the idea that obesity is, in part, a brain disease"
http://news.psu.edu/story/350597/20...uences-weight-control-neurocircuits-offspring
Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may, according to studies from Penn University, prime offspring for weight gain and obesity, later in life.
In a new study, researchers fed a group of rats a high fat diet during pregnancy and lactation. The offspring of these rats were in turn fed a high fat diet when weaned. On reaching adolescence the rats were measured for neural activity involved in energy balance and appetite regulation. Looking at the circuits which relay information from the stomach and the small intestine to the brain and back to the stomach, [ reflexes which help limit the amount of food we eat] they noted parts of the reflexes were compromised.
Kirsteen Browning, lead investigator, states exactly how maternal diet influences these functions is still unknown, however, "it`s time we start to take seriously the idea that obesity is, in part, a brain disease"
http://news.psu.edu/story/350597/20...uences-weight-control-neurocircuits-offspring