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Mother’s high-fat diet may lead to more sweet-taste receptors in offspring – News-Medical.Net

Cornell food scientists show in animal studies that a mother’s high-fat diet may lead to more sweet-taste receptors and a greater attraction to unhealthy food in their offspring – resulting in poor feeding behavior, obesity in adulthood.

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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 12 2020
Cornell food scientists show in animal studies that a mother’s high-fat diet may lead to more sweet-taste receptors and a greater attraction to unhealthy food in their offspring – resulting in poor feeding behavior, obesity in adulthood.
The researchers’ findings were published July 31 in Scientific Reports.
Maternal exposure to a high-fat diet during the perinatal period – before the animal gets pregnant – appears to induce physical, detectable c…

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