This article, Brain link to mother’s high fat diet and offspring’s obesity: Rat study, from Food Navigator is interesting because for the first time a study has been done that suggests that the diet mom has during her pregnancy could determine the eating habits of the child.

“A high fat diet during pregnancy may bring about changes in the offspring’s brain that makes them more prone to over-eating and obesity throughout their lives, according to a new rat study that may help explain the rise in childhood obesity.”

For more about the subject, go HERE.