Dieting During Pregnancy: Linked to Child's Obesity?

A Japanese study has shown an interesting link between underfed mothers and a surge of the hormone leptin in the newborn baby.

Leptin is a hormone produced by fat that appears to play an important role in keeping food intake and energy expenditure in balance, so weight is maintained at a steady level.

Though this is an experiment done only on mice, some feel it is significant:

Dr Simon Langley-Evans, an expert in human nutrition at Nottingham University, said: "This theory is very feasible. There is now quite a lot of data to show that prenatal under-nutrition does have a long-term impact on many disease states."

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