Uploaded October 2008 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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If you're planning to have children and want to help them avoid getting fat, lose your own fat before you get pregnant. That's the message from researchers who have found obesity during pregnancy can cause lifelong obesity in the next generations. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the good news is that researchers also found a dietary way to reverse this effect.
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