Maternal obesity doesn’t just affect the health of a pregnant woman. It can also have effects on her child, increasing their risk of developing obesity and its associated complications. According to a recent study published in The FASEB Journal, an early-in-life dietary intervention in mice can potentially reverse one of those complications—a reduction in the number of innate immune cells in the gut. The findings suggest that a healthful diet in infancy could help children of obese mothers start off on the right foot.
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