Maternal high-fat diet during pregnancy can affect baby’s gut microbes

Monday, August 8, 2016 - 20:01 in Health & Medicine

The community of microbes – the microbiome – living in a baby’s gut can be influenced by the mother’s diet during pregnancy. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that babies born to mothers who consumed a high-fat diet during pregnancy had a gut microbiome that was distinctly different from the one in babies of […]

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