Friday 28/March/2025 – 06:34 AM
Detect study New, published in Plos One, that the mother’s choices related to her health and lifestyle may play a big role in determining the risk of her children with obesity when they reach the age of adulthood.
Mother’s health and lifestyle may increase the risk of children with obesity in puberty
The new study showed that children whose mothers suffer from obesity are three to four times more likely to have their peers whose mothers have a healthy weight.
The results of the study indicated that smoking the mother during pregnancy or early childhood increases the possibility of obesity in adulthood by between 60% and 80%.
The research team, led by Dr. Gilina Knightgil, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, explained that the maternal influences continue until the age of 42, which reflects the extension of these factors through generations, even before the outbreak of the global obesity epidemic.
To conduct the study, the researchers analyzed the data of approximately 11,500 children born within one week in March 1958 as part of a long -term British study that included the regions of England, Scotland and Wales.
The researchers concluded that the effect of the mother’s body mass index is the most important factor in determining the risk of obesity in children, as it showed a long -term extension of the effects between generations, and the study confirmed that these factors were present with the same strength decades before the outbreak of obesity in the United Kingdom, which indicates the role of early genetic and environmental factors in forming the health of individuals in the long term.
