Obesity surge among conceiving women puts 100,000 babies at risk in later life

Nutritional child abuse.

More than 100,000 babies a year are at risk of death, deformity or serious health problems because of a surge in obesity among pregnant women.

A new report has found the proportion of newly pregnant women who are rated as obese has more than doubled from seven per cent to 15 per cent over the past 20 years.

Now one in six women is clinically obese when they conceive, the study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, showed.

Fat people should not reproduce.

And when they do, they should pay more.