Could Fibre Breakthrough Help Prevent Child Obesity?

We know that what happens to an unborn baby in the womb can affect a child for the rest of its life, not just when they’re an infant, and nothing is more important to the unborn baby than what the mum-to-be eats.

- Dr Miriam Stoppard

Indeed, what we’re learning is that her pregnancy diet goes a long way to determining the long-term health of the child.

The most common risk factor for an unborn baby within childbirth is maternal obesity which not only predicts how the mother comes through the birth, but also the healthy development of her child through childhood and adolescence to adulthood. In fact all the way through her child’s life.

We already know that maternal obesity in pregnancy carries an increased risk of the child dying prematurely when they grow into an adult, specifically due to cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke.