1 00:00:04,101 --> 00:00:05,571 So far, the kind of stuff that I have 2 00:00:05,625 --> 00:00:07,115 found out is, as long as you're 3 00:00:07,115 --> 00:00:08,775 making sure to get the basic nutrients 4 00:00:08,775 --> 00:00:10,195 that you need, your baby is going to be 5 00:00:10,195 --> 00:00:13,117 fine. But this, maybe could tell us a 6 00:00:13,117 --> 00:00:15,841 little bit more about whether if I eat bad 7 00:00:15,841 --> 00:00:17,063 things, what it might, 8 00:00:17,063 --> 00:00:18,648 what effect it might have on my baby. 9 00:00:28,651 --> 00:00:31,001 Talking to Hazel, just briefly over the 10 00:00:31,001 --> 00:00:35,110 phone was interesting. Her cohort study 11 00:00:35,110 --> 00:00:37,442 Started getting women before they even 12 00:00:37,442 --> 00:00:38,943 became pregnant, so it meant that 13 00:00:38,943 --> 00:00:41,760 they had an idea of what they were eating 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,327 long before they became pregnant. 15 00:00:44,327 --> 00:00:46,123 "It's not easy for a woman to eat a 16 00:00:46,123 --> 00:00:47,384 healthy diet, if everyone's eating 17 00:00:47,384 --> 00:00:49,530 unhealthy diets around her, so this 18 00:00:49,530 --> 00:00:51,237 isn't just a message for woman 19 00:00:51,237 --> 00:00:52,846 it is a message for men as well. 20 00:00:53,976 --> 00:00:55,694 The two things I've focused in on at the 21 00:00:55,694 --> 00:00:58,936 moment - one is the importance of the 22 00:00:58,936 --> 00:01:01,960 womans diet before during the pregnancy 23 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,995 on her children, because the pathway 24 00:01:04,995 --> 00:01:07,553 that she sets up for eating for herself 25 00:01:07,553 --> 00:01:10,642 are what she then uses in the quality 26 00:01:10,642 --> 00:01:12,927 of diet she feeds her children. The other 27 00:01:12,927 --> 00:01:15,395 side of it is finding what we've shown 28 00:01:15,395 --> 00:01:17,968 about low vitamin D levels, being linked 29 00:01:17,968 --> 00:01:20,321 to later bone health in children." 30 00:01:20,581 --> 00:01:22,791 Today I'm here at the Royal Veterinary 31 00:01:22,791 --> 00:01:25,001 College, and it's cause I've found this 32 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:26,778 really interesting research about 33 00:01:26,778 --> 00:01:29,548 junk food and rats, and the sort of affect 34 00:01:29,548 --> 00:01:31,495 on the offspring of rats 35 00:01:31,495 --> 00:01:33,909 when their mothers eat junk food during 36 00:01:33,909 --> 00:01:35,244 their pregnancy, so I'm really 37 00:01:35,244 --> 00:01:36,579 excited to find out a little bit 38 00:01:36,579 --> 00:01:37,949 more about this. 39 00:01:38,921 --> 00:01:43,658 Junk food is defined by: food that is very 40 00:01:43,658 --> 00:01:46,783 dense in energy, and contains a lot 41 00:01:46,783 --> 00:01:50,483 of fat, sugar, and or salt. So we fed 42 00:01:50,483 --> 00:01:53,484 pregnant rats either the controlled diet, 43 00:01:53,484 --> 00:01:57,559 which is this standard laboratory rodent 44 00:01:57,559 --> 00:02:01,123 feed, and the experimental groups were fed 45 00:02:01,133 --> 00:02:03,395 the junk food diets, so they had free 46 00:02:03,395 --> 00:02:05,845 access all to of this junk food, and they 47 00:02:05,845 --> 00:02:08,909 also had access to the standard healthy 48 00:02:08,909 --> 00:02:09,513 chow. 49 00:02:12,203 --> 00:02:14,407 This roughly represents how much 50 00:02:14,407 --> 00:02:17,193 fat you would get from a control group. 51 00:02:17,193 --> 00:02:20,572 So offspring fed a controlled diet, 52 00:02:20,572 --> 00:02:23,579 a healthy diet, from gestation, up to 53 00:02:23,579 --> 00:02:25,636 the end of adolescence. 54 00:02:26,945 --> 00:02:30,281 The second group, is when the mother's 55 00:02:30,281 --> 00:02:32,812 are fed a healthy diet in pregnancy and 56 00:02:32,812 --> 00:02:34,843 lactation. And then at weening 57 00:02:34,843 --> 00:02:36,957 the offspring are given free access to 58 00:02:36,957 --> 00:02:39,421 junk food, up to the end of adolescence. 59 00:02:39,421 --> 00:02:43,121 So they eat what they want. 60 00:02:43,121 --> 00:02:45,301 And the last group is the fat taken 61 00:02:45,301 --> 00:02:48,100 from offspring fed the junk food diet 62 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:50,570 from fetal life up to the end of 63 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:52,614 adolescence. So you can see they've got 64 00:02:52,614 --> 00:02:56,162 almost twice as much abdominal fat 65 00:02:56,162 --> 00:02:59,291 than those born to a mother fed a 66 00:02:59,291 --> 00:03:00,917 healthy, balanced diet. 67 00:03:01,583 --> 00:03:04,863 By being exposed to junk food diet before 68 00:03:04,863 --> 00:03:08,216 birth, through the metal dieting, pregnancy 69 00:03:08,216 --> 00:03:12,001 and lactation, those offspring developed 70 00:03:12,001 --> 00:03:14,663 obesity earlier in life, they overwrite 71 00:03:14,663 --> 00:03:16,980 and they developed a greater taste for 72 00:03:16,980 --> 00:03:19,848 junk food than those born to mothers 73 00:03:19,848 --> 00:03:21,509 fed a healthy diet. 74 00:03:22,082 --> 00:03:23,959 By seeing all of the fat that had been 75 00:03:23,959 --> 00:03:26,455 laid on, into these babies stomachs 76 00:03:26,455 --> 00:03:30,664 and abdominal regions, and livers 77 00:03:30,664 --> 00:03:33,577 from their mothers being fed junk food 78 00:03:33,577 --> 00:03:36,017 during pregnancy, and during the breast 79 00:03:36,017 --> 00:03:38,364 feeding stage. I started to realize 80 00:03:38,364 --> 00:03:40,360 A little bit more about my own 81 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,473 you know, responsibility in making 82 00:03:42,473 --> 00:03:45,791 sure that not only do I make sure that I 83 00:03:45,791 --> 00:03:48,791 get all nutrients that I need, but that I also 84 00:03:48,791 --> 00:03:51,496 don't overdue it and dont take in 85 00:03:51,496 --> 00:03:53,337 to much energy, and dont take in too 86 00:03:53,337 --> 00:03:56,128 much saturated fat. I went and had a salad 87 00:03:56,128 --> 00:03:58,040 for lunch after that. 88 00:03:59,658 --> 00:04:01,728 I sent off for my grant, and a week later 89 00:04:01,728 --> 00:04:03,615 I got it paid into my account. 90 00:04:03,615 --> 00:04:05,804 I didn't end up spending it on food 91 00:04:05,804 --> 00:04:06,822 at all actually. 92 00:04:07,919 --> 00:04:10,419 I'm going to make sure I spend it on 93 00:04:10,419 --> 00:04:12,660 something healthy, and something that 94 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:15,178 goes towards the well being of my baby 95 00:04:15,178 --> 00:04:17,226 Because that's something I've definitely 96 00:04:17,226 --> 00:04:18,657 taken away from talking to these 97 00:04:18,657 --> 00:04:22,765 scientists. There's something you can do 98 00:04:22,765 --> 00:04:25,641 at every stage of the pregnancy. 99 00:04:25,641 --> 00:04:27,003 If you are gonna beat yourself up over 100 00:04:27,003 --> 00:04:30,114 eating a biscuit with some full fat cheese 101 00:04:30,114 --> 00:04:31,860 its just not going to be worth it, but 102 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:34,059 It's just important not to eat that the 103 00:04:34,059 --> 00:04:35,652 whole way through.