A mother's consumption of ultra-processed foods appears to be related to an increased risk of overweight or obesity in her children, according to new research.
"As a medical and public health community, we have to understand that the period of time in which a woman is carrying a child or during the time when she is raising her children represents a unique opportunity to potentially intervene to affect both the health of the mother and also the health of the children," Chan toldIt is important to address these trends both on an individual clinician level and on a societal level, noted Chan.
But ultra-processed foods are affordable and convenient, and many communities are not able to easily access fresh and healthy foods, so"it is incumbent upon [clinicians] to make it a priority and to break down those social and economic barriers, which make it difficult to have healthy and less processed food," Chan elaborated.
The study team assessed 14,553 mothers and their 19,958 children from the Growing Up Today Study and Nurses' Health Study II in the United States. Males accounted for 45% of the children in the study, and the children's ages ranged from 7 to 17 years. Roughly 11,000 children from the NHS II were included in the GUTS II. The children were further evaluated in 2006, 2008, and 2011, as well as every 2 years thereafter.
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