Can Exercise During Pregnancy Reduce the Offspring's Cancer Risk?

Friday, September 28, 2012 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

If a mother exercises during her pregnancy, will that benefit her children? Researchers at the University of Kentucky have initiated studies to look into the idea: a group from the UK Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences has received a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study whether maternal exercise during pregnancy can lead to a reduced risk of cancer in offspring.

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