WEBVTT 00:00:04.101 --> 00:00:05.571 So far, the kind of stuff that I have 00:00:05.625 --> 00:00:07.115 found out is, as long as you're 00:00:07.115 --> 00:00:08.775 making sure to get the basic nutrients 00:00:08.775 --> 00:00:10.195 that you need, your baby is going to be 00:00:10.195 --> 00:00:13.117 fine. But this, maybe could tell us a 00:00:13.117 --> 00:00:15.841 little bit more about whether if I eat bad 00:00:15.841 --> 00:00:17.063 things, what it might, 00:00:17.063 --> 00:00:18.648 what effect it might have on my baby. 00:00:28.651 --> 00:00:31.001 Talking to Hazel, just briefly over the 00:00:31.001 --> 00:00:35.110 phone was interesting. Her cohort study 00:00:35.110 --> 00:00:37.442 Started getting women before they even 00:00:37.442 --> 00:00:38.943 became pregnant, so it meant that 00:00:38.943 --> 00:00:41.760 they had an idea of what they were eating 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:44.327 long before they became pregnant. 00:00:44.327 --> 00:00:46.123 "It's not easy for a woman to eat a 00:00:46.123 --> 00:00:47.384 healthy diet, if everyone's eating 00:00:47.384 --> 00:00:49.530 unhealthy diets around her, so this 00:00:49.530 --> 00:00:51.237 isn't just a message for woman 00:00:51.237 --> 00:00:52.846 it is a message for men as well. 00:00:53.976 --> 00:00:55.694 The two things I've focused in on at the 00:00:55.694 --> 00:00:58.936 moment - one is the importance of the 00:00:58.936 --> 00:01:01.960 womans diet before during the pregnancy 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.995 on her children, because the pathway 00:01:04.995 --> 00:01:07.553 that she sets up for eating for herself 00:01:07.553 --> 00:01:10.642 are what she then uses in the quality 00:01:10.642 --> 00:01:12.927 of diet she feeds her children. The other 00:01:12.927 --> 00:01:15.395 side of it is finding what we've shown 00:01:15.395 --> 00:01:17.968 about low vitamin D levels, being linked 00:01:17.968 --> 00:01:20.321 to later bone health in children." 00:01:20.581 --> 00:01:22.791 Today I'm here at the Royal Veterinary 00:01:22.791 --> 00:01:25.001 College, and it's cause I've found this 00:01:25.001 --> 00:01:26.778 really interesting research about 00:01:26.778 --> 00:01:29.548 junk food and rats, and the sort of affect 00:01:29.548 --> 00:01:31.495 on the offspring of rats 00:01:31.495 --> 00:01:33.909 when their mothers eat junk food during 00:01:33.909 --> 00:01:35.244 their pregnancy, so I'm really 00:01:35.244 --> 00:01:36.579 excited to find out a little bit 00:01:36.579 --> 00:01:37.949 more about this. 00:01:38.921 --> 00:01:43.658 Junk food is defined by: food that is very 00:01:43.658 --> 00:01:46.783 dense in energy, and contains a lot 00:01:46.783 --> 00:01:50.483 of fat, sugar, and or salt. So we fed 00:01:50.483 --> 00:01:53.484 pregnant rats either the controlled diet, 00:01:53.484 --> 00:01:57.559 which is this standard laboratory rodent 00:01:57.559 --> 00:02:01.123 feed, and the experimental groups were fed 00:02:01.133 --> 00:02:03.395 the junk food diets, so they had free 00:02:03.395 --> 00:02:05.845 access all to of this junk food, and they 00:02:05.845 --> 00:02:08.909 also had access to the standard healthy 00:02:08.909 --> 00:02:09.513 chow. 00:02:12.203 --> 00:02:14.407 This roughly represents how much 00:02:14.407 --> 00:02:17.193 fat you would get from a control group. 00:02:17.193 --> 00:02:20.572 So offspring fed a controlled diet, 00:02:20.572 --> 00:02:23.579 a healthy diet, from gestation, up to 00:02:23.579 --> 00:02:25.636 the end of adolescence. 00:02:26.945 --> 00:02:30.281 The second group, is when the mother's 00:02:30.281 --> 00:02:32.812 are fed a healthy diet in pregnancy and 00:02:32.812 --> 00:02:34.843 lactation. And then at weening 00:02:34.843 --> 00:02:36.957 the offspring are given free access to 00:02:36.957 --> 00:02:39.421 junk food, up to the end of adolescence. 00:02:39.421 --> 00:02:43.121 So they eat what they want. 00:02:43.121 --> 00:02:45.301 And the last group is the fat taken 00:02:45.301 --> 00:02:48.100 from offspring fed the junk food diet 00:02:48.100 --> 00:02:50.570 from fetal life up to the end of 00:02:50.570 --> 00:02:52.614 adolescence. So you can see they've got 00:02:52.614 --> 00:02:56.162 almost twice as much abdominal fat 00:02:56.162 --> 00:02:59.291 than those born to a mother fed a 00:02:59.291 --> 00:03:00.917 healthy, balanced diet. 00:03:01.583 --> 00:03:04.863 By being exposed to junk food diet before 00:03:04.863 --> 00:03:08.216 birth, through the metal dieting, pregnancy 00:03:08.216 --> 00:03:12.001 and lactation, those offspring developed 00:03:12.001 --> 00:03:14.663 obesity earlier in life, they overwrite 00:03:14.663 --> 00:03:16.980 and they developed a greater taste for 00:03:16.980 --> 00:03:19.848 junk food than those born to mothers 00:03:19.848 --> 00:03:21.509 fed a healthy diet. 00:03:22.082 --> 00:03:23.959 By seeing all of the fat that had been 00:03:23.959 --> 00:03:26.455 laid on, into these babies stomachs 00:03:26.455 --> 00:03:30.664 and abdominal regions, and livers 00:03:30.664 --> 00:03:33.577 from their mothers being fed junk food 00:03:33.577 --> 00:03:36.017 during pregnancy, and during the breast 00:03:36.017 --> 00:03:38.364 feeding stage. I started to realize 00:03:38.364 --> 00:03:40.360 A little bit more about my own 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:42.473 you know, responsibility in making 00:03:42.473 --> 00:03:45.791 sure that not only do I make sure that I 00:03:45.791 --> 00:03:48.791 get all nutrients that I need, but that I also 00:03:48.791 --> 00:03:51.496 don't overdue it and dont take in 00:03:51.496 --> 00:03:53.337 to much energy, and dont take in too 00:03:53.337 --> 00:03:56.128 much saturated fat. I went and had a salad 00:03:56.128 --> 00:03:58.040 for lunch after that. 00:03:59.658 --> 00:04:01.728 I sent off for my grant, and a week later 00:04:01.728 --> 00:04:03.615 I got it paid into my account. 00:04:03.615 --> 00:04:05.804 I didn't end up spending it on food 00:04:05.804 --> 00:04:06.822 at all actually. 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.419 I'm going to make sure I spend it on 00:04:10.419 --> 00:04:12.660 something healthy, and something that 00:04:12.660 --> 00:04:15.178 goes towards the well being of my baby 00:04:15.178 --> 00:04:17.226 Because that's something I've definitely 00:04:17.226 --> 00:04:18.657 taken away from talking to these 00:04:18.657 --> 00:04:22.765 scientists. There's something you can do 00:04:22.765 --> 00:04:25.641 at every stage of the pregnancy. 00:04:25.641 --> 00:04:27.003 If you are gonna beat yourself up over 00:04:27.003 --> 00:04:30.114 eating a biscuit with some full fat cheese 00:04:30.114 --> 00:04:31.860 its just not going to be worth it, but 00:04:31.860 --> 00:04:34.059 It's just important not to eat that the 00:04:34.059 --> 00:04:35.652 whole way through.