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Fish oil during pregnancy offers no protection for children against obesity

Study on preventative weight management during fetal development

Date: June 28, 2016

Source: Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Summary:
Across the world, many schoolchildren under 10 are overweight. In the search for the cause of this phenomenon, fetal programming was put under scrutiny in new research. That the mother's diet might have some influence could not be confirmed in a long-term study: administering a special diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids to pregnant women neither resulted in children being slimmer nor fatter than their counterparts from the control group whose mothers ate a normal diet.

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