We know that high levels of stress can cause emotional and mental damage but this latest study shows how stress in mothers can cause obesity in their unborn child.
It concluded that young men whose mothers had been exposed to bereavement had different degrees of risk of obesity, depending on the relationship that the deceased shared with the expectant mother. Previously, it has been indicated that serious anxiety in pregnant ladies can prompt weight issues for their children somewhere around the age of 10 and 13 years. Nonetheless, a correspondence between the mother's level of stress throughout pregnancy and the risk of obesity in her kids is new. The study appeared in the journal PLOS ONE. With inputs from IANS