Factors in breast milk may play a role in transmission of obesity

Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 06:50 in Health & Medicine

new study suggests the road to obesity may be paved with non-nutritious carbohydrates in breast milk, shifting popular notions about how and why children grow to become overweight adults. Previous research has shown that maternal obesity strongly affects a baby’s risk for becoming overweight, but scientists are unsure about how fatness is transmitted, said Michael […]

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