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So far, the kind of stuff that I have

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found out is, as long as you're

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making sure to get the basic nutrients

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that you need, your baby is going to be

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fine. But this, maybe could tell us a

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little bit more about whether if I eat bad

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things, what it might,

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what effect it might have on my baby.

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Talking to Hazel, just briefly over the

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phone was interesting. Her cohort study

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Started getting women before they even

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became pregnant, so it meant that

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they had an idea of what they were eating

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long before they became pregnant.

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"It's not easy for a woman to eat a

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healthy diet, if everyone's eating

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unhealthy diets around her, so this

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isn't just a message for woman

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it is a message for men as well.

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The two things I've focused in on at the

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moment - one is the importance of the

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womans diet before during the pregnancy

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on her children, because the pathway

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that she sets up for eating for herself

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are what she then uses in the quality

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of diet she feeds her children. The other

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side of it is finding what we've shown

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about low vitamin D levels, being linked

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to later bone health in children."

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Today I'm here at the Royal Veterinary

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College, and it's cause I've found this

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really interesting research about

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junk food and rats, and the sort of affect

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on the offspring of rats

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when their mothers eat junk food during

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their pregnancy, so I'm really

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excited to find out a little bit

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more about this.

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Junk food is defined by: food that is very

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dense in energy, and contains a lot

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of fat, sugar, and or salt. So we fed

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pregnant rats either the controlled diet,

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which is this standard laboratory rodent

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feed, and the experimental groups were fed

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the junk food diets, so they had free

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access all to of this junk food, and they

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also had access to the standard healthy

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chow.

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This roughly represents how much

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fat you would get from a control group.

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So offspring fed a controlled diet,

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a healthy diet, from gestation, up to

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the end of adolescence.

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The second group, is when the mother's

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are fed a healthy diet in pregnancy and

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lactation. And then at weening

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the offspring are given free access to

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junk food, up to the end of adolescence.

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So they eat what they want.

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And the last group is the fat taken

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from offspring fed the junk food diet

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from fetal life up to the end of

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adolescence. So you can see they've got

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almost twice as much abdominal fat

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than those born to a mother fed a

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healthy, balanced diet.

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By being exposed to junk food diet before

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birth, through the metal dieting, pregnancy

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and lactation, those offspring developed

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obesity earlier in life, they overwrite

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and they developed a greater taste for

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junk food than those born to mothers

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fed a healthy diet.

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By seeing all of the fat that had been

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laid on, into these babies stomachs

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and abdominal regions, and livers

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from their mothers being fed junk food

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during pregnancy, and during the breast

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feeding stage. I started to realize

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A little bit more about my own

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you know, responsibility in making

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sure that not only do I make sure that I

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get all nutrients that I need, but that I also

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don't overdue it and dont take in

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to much energy, and dont take in too

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much saturated fat. I went and had a salad

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for lunch after that.

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I sent off for my grant, and a week later

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I got it paid into my account.

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I didn't end up spending it on food

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at all actually.

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I'm going to make sure I spend it on

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something healthy, and something that

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goes towards the well being of my baby

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Because that's something I've definitely

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taken away from talking to these

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scientists. There's something you can do

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at every stage of the pregnancy.

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If you are gonna beat yourself up over

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eating a biscuit with some full fat cheese

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its just not going to be worth it, but

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It's just important not to eat that the

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whole way through.