Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk that your baby will become obese
Sunday, March 31, 2019 - 10:50
in Health & Medicine
Using foreskin tissue from newborn circumcisions, a group of researchers have identified a potential cellular mechanism that connects a mother’s smoking while pregnant with an increased risk of offspring obesity later in life. Obesity is considered an epidemic in the U.S., with nearly 35 percent of adults and 20 percent of children six to 19 […]