Fetal Brain Can Be Programmed To Induce Adult-Onset Obesity When Mother Is Obese

Kudos, fatsos - more early nutritional child abuse.

"Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that fetuses of obese mother rats were programmed in utero to develop obesity in adulthood.

Moreover, they have shown for the first time that the metabolic programming occurs in the fetal hypothalamus, the area of the brain responsible for maintaining the body's energy homeostasis (body weight) throughout life."

It is way past time to discourage fat people from having children (though we still should).

Now we will have to play even harder to catch-up.